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An acronym that’s pronounceable is more likely to become popular, e.g. LAMP, CRUD, etc. I guess you could say PNGR like “pinger”, but it’s a bit awkward. So I s
by qzw 7y ago
An acronym that’s pronounceable is more likely to become popular, e.g. LAMP, CRUD, etc. I guess you could say PNGR like “pinger”, but it’s a bit awkward. So I suggest a slightly modified acronym: PRNGL, pronounced as “Pringle”. The L of course stands for Linux. So now you can tell people “it’s running on the PRNGL stack.” One downside is that PRNG is already a well-known acronym. But so is PNG, so I don’t think it’s any worse than PNGR in that respect. On the plus side, the PRNGL stack sounds pretty tasty.
- ryanhuff 7y agoHow about PLNGR (plunger)?
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- Tim0theus 7y agoI liked PNGR, sounds like Pee-eN-Gee-Er in my head.
- jsjohnst 7y agoI’m not sure what you are on about there. PNGR is as pronounceable as PRNGL is, in fact they even have the exact same dropped vowels (i followed by an e). You even have to force in an unnecessary extra word which devalues your acronym imho. Personally, my issue with PRNGL is that it makes me think it has something to do with random numbers (PRNG should make most think of pseudo random number generator). The same argument could of course validly be made by someone about PNG being a common acronym too, but for some reason PNGR doesn’t make me immediately think it has to do with image formats, where as PRNGL does make me think random numbers. My own mental biases are likely a factor there.