There's a reason why "naming things" is one of the two hard problems in Computer Science. Data-Oriented Design (DOD) and Data-Oriented Programming (DOP) are two different things which has caused a fair amount of confusion on HN before. Data-Directed Programming (DDP) appears to be a third, different thing.

In searching those threads, I came across a post from the author of the DOP book describing the difference between DOD, DOP, and DDP (a different DDP! Data Driven Programing; a fourth thing!) [2], and I see he also made the "naming things" joke in the first paragraph, so I guess my humour isn't that unique!

There's been quite a bit of discussion about DOD and some about DOP (and much conflation between the two) on HN, it can be interesting to read [3].

1. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

2. https://blog.klipse.tech/visualization/2021/02/16/data-relat...

3. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Data+Oriented