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Re: Acronyms. (Perlmonks-specific Acronyms)
by grinder (Bishop) on Jul 25, 2002 at 18:36 UTC
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I'm not sure I follow you. One of those nodes discusses silly acronyms, and the other discusses acronyms in common usage, and yet I thought your question was about Perlmonks-specific nodes.
Since I don't recall a discussion on the matter, here is a list of the PSAs (Perlmonks Specific Acronyms) that I know about.
| AM | Anomymous Monk (also known as Anonymonk, a.k.a Anomo). |
| CB | Chatterbox |
| CUFP | Cool Uses for Perl (thanks petral). |
| FP | Front Page (as in "who FPed the SoPW on finite state automata?") |
| FPC | fullpage chat, one way of keeping up with the CB. |
| NN | Newest Nodes |
| NtC | Nodes to Consider |
| obfu | obfuscation. (ybiC is quite correct in pointing out that this is an abbreviation, not an acronym. And it isn't specific only to Perl Monks for that matter)... |
| OP | Original Post or Original Poster. For instance, diotalevi might reply about how it would be possible to walk the op-code tree and reassign lexical pads on the fly, to which adrianh will reply "yeah, but the OP just asks how to format a number to 2 decimal places". |
| PMD | Perlmonks Discussion |
| SoPW | Seekers of Perl Wisdom |
| SP | Scratchpad/Scratch Pad (depending on how one spells it) |
| TMG | The Monastery Gates |
(/msg me if you know of others...)
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My idea encompasses both types of acronyms. The typical perlmonks acronyms mentioned above, and the things that you are likely to see in messages.
| OTMH |
Off the top of my head |
| JAPH |
Just Another Perl Hacker |
| TIMTOWTDI |
There is More Than One Way To Do It |
etc...
Perhaps the page should be devided into two sections or something to explain that they are different...
Josh
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lart=Large Attitude Readjustment Tool. Think tire iron, baseball bat, crowbar, etc...
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Re: Acronyms. (Perlmonks-specific Acronyms)
by danichka (Hermit) on Jul 26, 2002 at 00:10 UTC
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Re: Acronyms. (Perlmonks-specific Acronyms)
by George_Sherston (Vicar) on Jul 25, 2002 at 23:52 UTC
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I rather like the mystery myself. It took me (as an IT outsider whose first and only computing experience was Perl) a long time to realise what AFAIK, RTFM, LOL, ROFTOLSDF etc stood for, but that was like when you go to a new country and for a while you don't know what the road signs mean and how the money works, but then you work it out and you begin to feel part of things. The working it out and getting one's accent right and so on are all part of the process of aculturation. IMHO.
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Re: Acronyms. (Perlmonks-specific Acronyms)
by jacques (Priest) on Sep 24, 2003 at 18:06 UTC
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Actually this place is pretty easy to understand. Some places I visit seem to be occupied by space aliens. For example, can anyone please tell me what i<3 means?
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