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by bennofs 3093 days ago
I like it, at least from the little that I read about it. The name describes the core of what it is: differentiate programs, in order to figure out how changes the the program affect the output and using that for optimization purposes. Do we really need to invent obscure, new names for everything just so that it sounds catchy?
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Couldn't agree more. A technique should be judged by its usefulness. Not by its catchiness.
to be fair though, the subject is a judgement of a technique's name, not a judgement of the technique itself.
not to forget, naming is one of the harder problems considered in programming.