Naming things well is arguably Job 1 for professional programmers. Yet we have all suffered from some bad naming choices from time to time. So just to vent a little, what are some doozies that you may have run across?

Just to get things started:

One of our original developers wasn't sure what to call a secondary key - on what turned out to be a primary table for this app - so he called it: DL2WhateverTheHellThatIs.

Unfortunately this system generates entity mappings from the XML, and attributes defined there result in classes, methods, and constants that are referenced through-out the app. To this day it is very hard to find a source file that does not reference this, er, thing! A few actual examples:

DL2WhateverTheHellThatIsBean cos = (DL2WhateverTheHellThatIsBean)itr.next();

String code = getDL2WhateverTheHellThatIs().getCode();

From from = new From("DL2WhateverTheHellThatIs");

String filter = "_dL2WhateverTheHellThatIs._code";

(Very difficult to refactor)