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I understand this reasoning. The conclusion I draw is that "OTP" is truly a miserable name — like "car cdr" level bad. As a newcomer to Elixir's OTP, I cannot
by rectang 6y ago
I understand this reasoning. The conclusion I draw is that "OTP" is truly a miserable name — like "car cdr" level bad.
As a newcomer to Elixir's OTP, I cannot divine that experts hold the opinion that the acronym expansion is misleading when that information is deliberately withheld. The first thing this article did was send me off to search the web.
Folks should use a backronym, like "Opinionated Threading Platform".
- dnautics 6y agoBack in the 90s there were plenty of programs which ditched their acronyms: elm, pine, pico, gnu, etc.
- IggleSniggle 6y agoImportantly, all of those have a discernible pronunciation that is not simply stating the letters in order.
- dnautics 6y agoa very good point. That goes for GNU, too.