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Offtopic: So we're all just calling programming languages "PL"'s now? Why is it so hard for people to type? (Seriously though, it's a strange kind of memetic
by ninkendo 11y ago
Offtopic: So we're all just calling programming languages "PL"'s now? Why is it so hard for people to type?
(Seriously though, it's a strange kind of memetic behavior, I rarely see it abbreviated as "PL" ever, but in each comment I scan, people are using "PL" here too. It was enough to get me to click the article just to see if "PL" was some new thing I haven't heard of.)
- Sirenos 11y agoIt's just you. PL isn't that rare an abbreviation, although I mostly see it used within discussions about PL Theory.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoIt was a more common abbreviation in the 70s when many languages included it in their name, starting I think with Iverson's APL in 1969.
- nmrm2 11y agoPL is a very common abbreviation in the research community and has been for at least decades. Common usage in academia probably stems in part from the fact that conferences are often named by their initials, so the conference on "Principles of Programming Languages" becomes "POPL" and so on.