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.
It's not the "Node(.js) Package Manager"?
8 0 Replyhttps://archive.today/http://npmjs.org/
Apparently, it used to stand for that until some time in 2013
5 0 ReplyAccording to the tweet, no.
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TWAIN is still my favorite
Technology without an interesting name
8 0 ReplyYAML is also good - yet another markup language.
6 0 ReplyFun fact, "Yet another X" is one of the oldest software engineering memes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yet_another
6 0 ReplyThere are a lot of "Yet another" acronyms out there
3 0 ReplyHah, when I think YAML my brain goes to the Mechwarrior 5 mod: Yet Another Mech Lab.
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PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor
GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
4 0 Replyapparently PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page"
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I'm pretty sure NPM is Node Package Manager.
XNA, Microsoft's C# based game dev framework, stood for XNA is Not Acronymed.
8 0 ReplyProblem is, XNA is an acronym since it is correctly initialized and can be pronounced
3 3 ReplyHow do you pronounce it?
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PINE: Pine Is Not Elm.
At the time I was told this is a recursive acronym.
4 0 ReplyJust wait till you find out what PHP and ATI stand for.
3 0 ReplyATI on its own was 'array technologies incorporated', though to your point, they became known as 'ATI technologies incporporated' later on, which is big sus.
4 0 ReplyAnd GNU
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npm stands for "Let’s be shitty about everything, including our naming"
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1 0 ReplyI have no idea. I see 13 upvotes on kbin, but then again kbin doesn’t federate downvotes, and I see the score as -16 on lemmy.sdf.org . What I do know is that Lemmy has been plaguing quite a bit of things lately.
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Gnu’s Not Linux!
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