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“I think this is an extremely good point. Just to give a (genuine) alternate opinion, I was contemplating the naming schemes of the CS department servers on Friday whilst cycling back from Ikea (a long journey that provided a lot of thinking time.)

I decided that Verona, Milan, etc, where very elegant names, but it makes the whole system seem "up itself", for want of a better phrase (that I can spell). I then remembered a similar scenario a few years ago when a friend was building a network for a team of scientists in Manchester, and "required" names for each computer. He ended up naming them after famous CS people. I think this particular example shows that something as generic as computer network, specifically where the servers provide similar functions, that imaginative names aren't necessarily required. Server-1 through Server-4 would suffice (much as they did at my sixth form.)

I think that, while what you say is true, there is also over-doing it.

And you didn't mention people who pick a cute two-syllable word, and try turning it into an acronym by finding innane words that could (barely) plausibly fit each letter. That is quite a raw nerve as far as naming software goes.

Alex” source...