The geographical first reference from the name of the author (Davide Sant'Angelo) suggests 'dato' must be the singular for 'data' - "piece of data".

What some number of people decide in their spare time about the nicknames they will give to things - from cockney rhyming slang to extra-academical trends -, remains their own business, and should not bother us. A "private" business, not in the default terms of their right to keep it private to us, but of our right to remain uninvolved.

Given the number of words in all human languages, chances are someone, somewhere will at some time take exception to your name choice no matter how carefully you chose.

I just went as far a searching google and urbandictionary and I still have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Which one do you think it is, considering both the functionality of the program and the high possibility of the author not being a native English speaker? For millions of people 'dato' simply means 'date', as in day of the month.

>The name of this library indicates that the author either knows nothing about prostitution or is heavily into prostitution.

Since you pointed this out, can we assume you're in the latter group?