Nothing to do with status (did I actually say something that suggested a status link?), and my claim isn't that computer science doesn't have a problem with naming things (everything has a problem with naming things) but that when Karlton said "computer science" he probably meant "software development".
[EDITED to remove a remark that was maybe unproductively cynical.]
The question isn't whether computer science has a problem with naming things but whether naming information structures is a computer science problem.
It's not a problem of algorithms but it's a problem of how to relate with information. Given how central names are to human reasoning and human intelligence, caring about names seems to be relevant for building artificial intelligence.
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