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TIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"

twitter.com /npmjs/status/105690425242820608

Why not "NINAA"? Because then it would be an acronym.

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It's not the "Node(.js) Package Manager"?
- https://archive.today/http://npmjs.org/
  
  Apparently, it used to stand for that until some time in 2013
- According to the tweet, no.
TWAIN is still my favorite

Technology without an interesting name
- YAML is also good - yet another markup language.
  
  Fun fact, "Yet another X" is one of the oldest software engineering memes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yet_another
  
  There are a lot of "Yet another" acronyms out there
  
  Hah, when I think YAML my brain goes to the Mechwarrior 5 mod: Yet Another Mech Lab.
- PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor
  
  GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
  
  apparently PHP originally stood for "Personal Home Page"
I'm pretty sure NPM is Node Package Manager.

XNA, Microsoft's C# based game dev framework, stood for XNA is Not Acronymed.
- Problem is, XNA is an acronym since it is correctly initialized and can be pronounced
  
  How do you pronounce it?
PINE: Pine Is Not Elm.

At the time I was told this is a recursive acronym.
Just wait till you find out what PHP and ATI stand for.
- ATI on its own was 'array technologies incorporated', though to your point, they became known as 'ATI technologies incporporated' later on, which is big sus.
- And GNU
npm stands for "Let’s be shitty about everything, including our naming"
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- I have no idea. I see 13 upvotes on kbin, but then again kbin doesn’t federate downvotes, and I see the score as -16 on lemmy.sdf.org . What I do know is that Lemmy has been plaguing quite a bit of things lately.
Gnu’s Not Linux!

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