Acronyms' Punny Relatives! Organized Nearness! Your Memory Secure/Smiles!
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| BASIC | Began At Seven, I'd Conjecture |
Angela Brett, whose brothers forced her into BASIC programming pretty much as soon as she could read. |
| BITWISE | Boolean Instructions Tackle Words In Single Elements |
Angela Brett |
| CAPI | Contemptible And Pitiful Interface |
CAPI = Crypto Application Programming Interface (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| CAST | Circumvent Any Strong Typing |
Angela Brett (the strong type-checking of programming languages such as C++ can easily be got around by casting.) |
| COBOL | Computer Operators' Bewilderingly Obfuscatory Lingo |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| CODE | Centre Of Developer's Existence |
Angela Brett |
| COMPILER | Corrector Of Many Problems, It Lends Expertise Readily |
Angela Brett |
| ESAC | End Statement After 'Case' |
Angela Brett -- in a bash script, to end a case block you use 'esac', to end an 'if' you use 'fi' and to end a 'do' you use... 'done'. Nobody ever called bash intuitive. ;^) |
| FINISHED | Finally I've Nailed It, Software Has Earned Downloads |
Angela Brett, when she had at last got the Apronyms app for Mac OS X ready for release. |
| FOR | Father Of Repetition |
Angela Brett, because for is usually the best loop to use in C programs. |
| HYPERCARD | Highly Yoozerfriendly Programming Environment Requiring Clean And Rapid Development |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications |
| HYPERTALK | Have You Programmed Especially Rapidly? Try Another Language, 'Kay? |
Angela Brett. (The 'Kay is short for Okay and also a reference to my C programming lecturer whose last name is Kay.) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software |
| JUDGEMENT | Java Users/ Developers Group, Extended: Macintosh Enthusiasts Now Taken! |
Gavin Lambert, thinking up a new name for a group Angela told him about which is ostensibly a Java users group but is actually a group of Mac developers, one of which develops using Java. Its previous working title was JUGWOXACI so this is a big improvement! JUDGEMENT day is the second Tuesday of each month. |
| MANTIS | Make A Note That It's Screwy |
Angela Brett (Mantis is a program for keeping track of bugs in software.) |
| MODIFIERS | Mould Our Data Into Form Incorporating Esoteric Reckoning Symbols |
Angela Brett, on encountering warning C4229: anachronism used : modifiers on data are ignored |
| MSDN | Microsoft's Special Documentation Nook |
Sean Lamb (MSDN usually stands for Microsoft Developer Network) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| OBJECTIVE-C | Obscure, But Just Enough Complexity, Tied Into Very Elegant Classes |
Paul Marshall |
| ODBC | One Doesn't Buy Connectivity |
Sean Lamb (ODBC usually stands for Open Database Connectivity) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| OOP | One Odious Paradigm |
Sean Lamb (OOP = Object Oriented Programming) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PROGRAMMING | People Require One Good Reference, Alphabetically Making Most Instructions Nimbly Graspable. |
Angela Brett |
| Q-BASIC | Quite Boring And Stupid Illogical Code |
Tripod |
| _SNPRINTF | Safe? Not Particularly. Recently It Nearly Totally Failed! |
Angela Brett, who had advocated the use of the C function _snprintf in place of sprintf because it takes the size of the buffer as a parameter and so ought to be safer, but recently discovered it's not so safe after all. |
| SPACES | Some Paradoxically Appeared, Code's Essentially Spoiled. |
Angela Brett, after finding some spaces where they shouldn't have been in a C program which she's sure she never typed. |
| SUBROUTINE | Second Use Brings Reduction Of Unnecessary Typing, Integrity, Name's Explanatory |
Angela Brett, meaning that reusing a subroutine brings integrity, not a reduction of it. |
| WHIDBEY | What Has It Done But Ensare You? |
Sean Lamb (Whidbey is Microsoft's code name for Visual Studio '05; Microsoft's strategy can often be reduced to Embrace-Extend-Extinguish, as they first accept standards then provide "essential" extensions that are only compatible with their own products) Computers:Windows:Applications Names:Code Names:Microsoft |
| WWDC | Where We Demonstrate Code |
Angela Brett (WWDC usually stands for Worldwide Developers Conference -- see http://apple.com/wwdc) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |