In small programming examples, it is established that one will probably use foo, bar, and/or baz as variable/function names.
Are there accepted human names one can use? For example, if a program is sorting a list of people in alphabetical order, should I just use whatever names I think of?
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Generally Alice and Bob and various others (mostly from Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography though Alice and Bob predate his usage of them by decades) are used in Cryptography. Various other names show up but they tend to represent specific things. They also pop up in other contexts such as networking on occasion but outside that there’s no “official” set of names.
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