When worldwideweb.app was first being developed an the RFCs and so forth for web servers and protocols were being discussed, one of the sticking point was what to call a URL --- the initial suggestion was "Universal Resource Locator", but the argument was made that users and writers were not librarians and that the distributed nature would preclude a given web page having a universally agreed-upon location and name, so instead the present "Uniform Resource Locator" was adopted.

What if there was a code sharing site where it was unambiguous what a given snippet of code would be named and where it would be stored, so that a user could just browse it and find a list of implementations for a given problem?

This of course runs up against one what John Ousterhout notes is one of the most difficult problems in computer science --- naming things --- in his book:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy...

I've tried to do it on a small-scale with my own work, storing bits of (la).tex code in a single file, but on reviewing it, I'll often find that I have written a given solution a second time and given the macro a slightly different name....