What would you name this class? [modified]

[Tom Delany]

El Jefe!

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[The Nightcoder]

True. Nerdiness isn't a virtue to strive for, but for some reason it seems to afflict most of us. Even those self-employed suckers depending on getting stuff done. I'm one of them - and that's why I'm here, finding ready-to-use code snippets and pieces of knowledge - and trying to support the community by helping people whenever I have the spare time. In any case, I doubt a CodeProject site for just self-employed professionals would be nerd-free. On the contrary, I think nerdiness (again, not a virtue but a fact) often drives people in that career direction. As in a) finding it at all interesting to program computers in the first place and b) finding it necessary to not be bossed around by incompetent people (while customers may be incompetent in my field, they usually outsmart me in theirs, so I can live with them). I know this was the case for me... :-)

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[Gary R Wheeler]

FooDepartmentHead? FooDirector? FooVicePresident?

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[Gary R Wheeler]

FooCEO is remarkably close to one of my rejects: FookUp

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

PeterTheSwede wrote:

So what exactly are you doing on a computer programming site?

Trolling endlessly on Global Warming. Stay away from the soapbox.

Cheers, Vikram.

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[Lost User]

PeterTheSwede wrote:

Foo is one ...

Exactly. So just why does an American WW2 military acronym find get used by nerdy computer programers? Did the first programmers come form 101 airborn? Makes me want to puke!

PeterTheSwede wrote:

Using it shows experience and literacy (and/or age, possibly - which also calls for respect).

That is exactly my point. Its used purely to atempt to appear more 'expert' or whatever despite the fact the user most likely isnt.

PeterTheSwede wrote:

So what exactly are you doing on a computer programming site?

Sorry, did CP become the home of nerds? I thought it was for software engineers? h, by the way, I was in mechanical engineering for many years before switching to software engineering, so I have many traits of a mechanical engineer, I like beer and cars for example, and not those of a typical software engineer.

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[Lost User]

John C wrote:

For the most part he's the village idiot

Do you really take it so seriously?

John C wrote:

I do agree with a dislike of nerdiness for nerdiness sake, if there as a CodeProject for people who own their own business and write the software I'd be there a lot talking about getting things done.

Agree.

Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

[Maidomax]

FooUberlord FooOverlord would be okay too.

bling bling

[MRLacey]

I wouldn't. Go back and create an OO design. Objects shouldn't control other objects.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

MRLacey wrote:

Objects shouldn't control other objects.

Are you completely unfamiliar with the concept of design patterns? /ravi

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[grgran]

Tish, tish ... don't you mean fooCIO ... after all what if he wants to create a class that manages a collection of fooCIO objects ? ;-)

[SyntaxC4 0]

I'd say FooManagerCollection, or even FooManagerFactory.

[cjdunford]

What's wrong with 'FooManagers'? There's a nice little convention (I first noticed it in VB though it undoubtedly started somewhere else) that if class A is a collection of class B objects, the name for class A is simply the plural of the name of class B. So, an 'Items' object is a collection of 'Item' objects. Items[i] is--an Item. Simple, obvious, works in most cases.

[JasonCordes]

A manager of managers. Good question. I would be penchant for something like FooSupervisor or MCP (for those Tron geeks out there).

[brian8655]

I don't know what kind of data structures you are using, but somewhere in there I hope you have a queue. Even if you don't need it, how can you resist creating an object named FooQueue?

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[BillWoodruff]

an object that controls a collection of FooManagers? Dear Ravi, May I suggest : MoFoManager MotherOfAllFoos FooManagerHerder If you are a Hindi speaker, may I suggest : AndherNagreeChauputRajah best, Bill

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[tonyS10024]

MrPresident

[destynova]

FooManagerManager would be consistent :P This is one of the things that always makes me a little uncomfortable and not satsified when writing big programs in Java. Perhaps an issue with OO in general, having large, empty hierarchies of classes... unless there is compelling logic happening at each level. It gets really tedious if you're unit-testing everything you write, and you realise you need to build something like this.

[rastaVnuce]

Oh, we're fishing for class name compliments, are we? :)

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[Rick Shaub]

FooManagerManager (FooMgrMgr for short)? FooManagerPlusPlus? FooDirector? If you create a new Manager for your FooDirector, it could be named FooVP.