Ask HN: What should have been the term for RAII?
by beaukin on Hacker News.
Bjarne Stroustrup himself said he was very busy when he came up with the name for this concept, that it’s not a very good name, and joked he’s not good at “marketing“. What would be a better terminology? As I’ve been learning modern C++, I admit that I’ve struggled to understand why these terms make sense. To me, I think of it like “Resource Acquisition Promising Release”. Does this betray that I am not truly understanding Strourstrup’s principle?