Over the past few weeks while developing the next version of the Windows Live Installer, I have had discussions with other developers over different parts of the system. Each and every time we have some part of the software to discuss, I am always torn on how to describe what the software does. Should I say something like “The engine does X, Y, then Z” or should it be “Alice’s code does X, Y, then Z”.
I’m pretty sure that I have settled on “The Engine” instead of saying the developer who wrote the code. What does everyone out there think?