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Re: NSGMLS ??

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: NSGMLS ??
Date	2011-12-22 02:38 -0800
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On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:01:57 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>
>What evidence do you have that it's an acronym?  If the founding link (that 
>first link in the Google search) doesn't mention it, how would any other source 
>be authoritative?
 
Because it contains another acronym SGML  Standard Generalised Markup
Language

It is not pronounceable. That is another clue.

I wrote the author. He did not respond.

Sometimes acronyms are a joke and when the product acquires prestige,
the author wishes the acronym deviation would go away.

Sun disavowed JDBC meaning anything  because I gather they did not
like giving homage to Microsoft's ODBC.

There is one acronym in the Java glossary whose name escapes me. They
refuse to divulge the meaning of their acronym saying it reflects
their early history and they are much bigger than that now.

-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
If you can't remember the name of some method, 
consider changing it to something you can remember.

Thread

NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-20 07:03 -0800
  Re: NSGMLS ?? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-20 10:09 -0500
    Re: NSGMLS ?? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-20 07:44 -0800
      Re: NSGMLS ?? Michael Jung <miju@golem.phantasia.org> - 2011-12-20 21:14 +0100
      Re: NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-20 15:13 -0800
        Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-20 15:29 -0800
          Re: NSGMLS ?? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-12-20 23:57 +0000
        Re: NSGMLS ?? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-21 07:01 -0800
          Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-21 11:10 -0800
          Re: NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-22 02:38 -0800
            Re: NSGMLS ?? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-22 07:55 -0500
              Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-22 10:38 -0800
            Re: NSGMLS ?? Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2011-12-22 11:26 -0800
              Re: NSGMLS ?? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-22 11:47 -0800
                Re: NSGMLS ?? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-04 16:56 -0800
            Re: NSGMLS ?? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-22 21:13 -0500
        Re: NSGMLS ?? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-01-05 11:20 +0000

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