TIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"
TIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"
Why not "NINAA"? Because then it would be an acronym.
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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