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Same applies to nearly every tool for every language. yacc, for instance, does not give any indication as to what it does (well, until you expand the initialism).

Java is, of course, one place where this is a bit better. log4j and jUnit both tell you what they do quite easily. (But then again, Apache Maven does not.)

We have Google these days, and if that doesn't help you, go on the #ruby IRC channel and ask what they recommend.

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Lucene, guice, solr, spring, hibernate, jmx, osi, nailgun, etc.

awk, grep, sed, perl, cat, finger, man, etc

  awk -> I forget what
  grep -> global/regular expression/print
  sed -> stream editor
  perl -> I'll give you this one
  cat -> concatenate
  finger -> I'll give you this one
  man -> manual

A large percentage of them are mnemonics.

I wasn't implying that it's better elsewhere, just that java isn't any better.

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