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Per https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... , names have far too much ambiguity to consider that two fields is necessary or sufficient to encapsulate that information.

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Maybe for consumer apps, but for a lot of enterprise apps that have to be compatible with existing APIs or domain-specific data standard that require two name fields, that’s not really a viable approach.

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