Aatube to Today I Learned • edit-29 months agoTIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"twitter.commessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down132file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•9 months agoTWAIN is still my favorite Technology without an interesting name
minus-squareRikudou_SagelinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoYAML is also good - yet another markup language.
minus-square@9point6linkEnglish6•9 months agoFun fact, “Yet another X” is one of the oldest software engineering memes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yet_another
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•9 months agoHah, when I think YAML my brain goes to the Mechwarrior 5 mod: Yet Another Mech Lab.
minus-square@pete_the_catlinkEnglish4•edit-29 months agoPHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
minus-squareAatubeOPlinkfedilink3•9 months agoapparently PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”
minus-square@pete_the_catlinkEnglish1•9 months agoI’ve never heard that, and it doesn’t really make sense in terms of PHP does, but anything is possible.
minus-squareericMlinkEnglish1•9 months agoThat’s what it originally meant, but it was retconned to be a recursive acronym similar to GNU - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
TWAIN is still my favorite
Technology without an interesting name
YAML is also good - yet another markup language.
Fun fact, “Yet another X” is one of the oldest software engineering memes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yet_another
Now I want YAWYSIWYG
There are a lot of “Yet another” acronyms out there
Hah, when I think YAML my brain goes to the Mechwarrior 5 mod: Yet Another Mech Lab.
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor
GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
apparently PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”
I’ve never heard that, and it doesn’t really make sense in terms of PHP does, but anything is possible.
That’s what it originally meant, but it was retconned to be a recursive acronym similar to GNU - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor