[rhodin]

Counter-anecdote time from Murray Gel-Mann, who did think names were important [1]

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/remembering-murr...

[taeric]

I don't think anyone in computers can purport to names being important. Shell's sort, Bloom's filter, awk, c++, Java vs JavaScript....

The number of names that are misleading or almost willfully obtuse is absurdly high. (I'm actually cheating for folks in my list, as I typically see it just shown as shell sort and bloom filter. Which hides that it is named for someone.)

[stonemetal12]

At least Shell invented the sort named after him. In the sciences you have Stigler's Law (no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy