Naming inconsistencies

Look at this, forget everything else you know about these commands or the products behind them and think for a while:

root@parrot:~# my
myisamchk mysqlaccess mysql_client_test_embedded mysqldumpslow mysqlimport mysqlshow mysqltestmanager-pwgen myisam_ftdump mysqladmin mysql_convert_table_format mysql_explain_log mysql_install_db mysql_tableinfo mysql_tzinfo_to_sql myisamlog mysqlbinlog mysqld mysql_find_rows mysqlmanager mysqltest mysql_upgrade myisampack mysqlbug mysqld_multi mysql_fix_extensions mysqlreport mysqltest_embedded mysql_upgrade_shell mysql_print_defaults mysqlcheck mysqld_safe mysql_fix_privilege_tables mysql_secure_installation mysqltestmanager mysql_waitpid mysql mysql_client_test mysqldump mysqlhotcopy mysql_setpermission mysqltestmanagerc mysql_zap

root@parrot:~# pg
pg pg_ctlcluster pg_dump pg_lsclusters pgrep pg_upgradecluster pg_createcluster pg_dropcluster pg_dumpall pg_maintenance pg_restore
(pg and pgrep are not postgresql related)

Same things happen if you start looking at the command line options (try mysqldump --help and pg_dump --help).

So, which one is easier to use? Which one makes more sense? What does this tell you about the two projects? ($)

To me, it says one has organized, well thought, planned development, which transpires the whole product, even to the user interfaces. The other one has haphazard, randomly planned development, which probably percolates from the user interfaces to the code (*), or viceversa.

I'm not saying this demonstrates MySQL as an inferior product. I'm saying this demonstrates MySQL is less organized, cares less about user interfaces and probably is less organized in a lot of other areas as well. I cannot be sure about that, but it sure is the impression it gives to me.

Of course this is not privative to the MySQL project, same naming inconsistencies plague PHP, for instance.

I guess what I'm really trying to say here is that you must take care about all pieces of a project, the more care you take, the better it will look and the easier will be to make it as good as it looks.

What impression is your project giving?

($): Of course one single fact cannot tell the whole story, so please apply standard disclaimers.
(*): I must confess I haven't looked at mysql's code so I cannot know.