Posted by Grant Foraker on August 24, 2012 at 15:00:54:
In David S. Platt's book "Introducing Microsoft .NET", he explains Microsoft acronyms. Circa 2000. I'm a slow reader.
"You will note that many of the acronyms used in .NET aren't the TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms; TLA itself is a TLA) you're used to to seeing in most computing projects. That's because only 17,576 unique TLA's exist, and Microsoft ran out of them half way through the project. I foresaw this problem two years ago and offered the solution of folding TLA's into CCT's (Clever Compound TLAs; CCT itself is a CCT). While the XML world seems to have adopted this idea (for example, XSL, XML Style-sheet Language, or SAX, Simple API for XML, a semi-saturated CCT), Microsoft seems to have spurned it, opting to increase the work length to produce acronyms like SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. These nomenclature objects haven't been named yet, so I hereby declare them to be FLAPs, which stands for Four-Letter Acronym Packages. And, naturally, FLAP itself it a FLAP."
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