<div dir="ltr">All that is true but all the documentation still refers to the long name and people will ask about the long name. When I came to erlang as a newbie I initially looked at OTP and thought that was just for telecom. Something like the whole canonical model movement in XSD. So there is a bit of miscommunication. This is just from the Erlang newbie's perspective. I have been programming professionally for some 20 years and even I had to dig deeper before I found out that OTP was actually just like the core lib in the JDK. <br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><b>Robert Simmons Jr. MSc. <br></b></div></div></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Hugo Mills <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hugo@carfax.org.uk" target="_blank">hugo@carfax.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="">On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +1300, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:<br>
><br>
> On 13/02/2014, at 11:56 AM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:<br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > The same situation exists with many other names. Few can tell you what SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, REST, SOAP, HTML, XML, JPEG, PNG and others stand for without looking it up and not making a mistake or three.<br>
><br>
> Let's try.<br>
><br>
> Simple Mail Transport Protocol<br>
> Internet Message Access Protocol<br>
> HyperText Transfer Protocol<br>
> REpresentational State Transfer<br>
> Simple Object Access Protocol<br>
> to be honest, my first thought was<br>
> Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program,<br>
> but I don't suppose many people use IBM 650s<br>
> these days.<br>
<br>
</div> Officially, it's just "SOAP" these days. It was originally from the<br>
phrase above, but they decided to keep the acronym and drop the<br>
underlying words, because it's not simple and it's not about object<br>
access.<br>
<div class=""><br>
> HyperText Markup Language<br>
> eXtensible Markup Language<br>
> Joint Photographic Experts Group<br>
> Portable Network Graphics<br>
><br>
> How did I do? (Really no lookup.)<br>
<br>
</div> Good. 8.5/9 :)<br>
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Hugo.<br>
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