At least you're not from Scunthorpe.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Dan Greiner <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2019 4:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Poll For the nearly 30 years that Amdahl competed for IBM's mainframe turf, many within Amdahl referred to the Principles of Operation using the proper initialism of PoO (yes, initialism is a word). As IBMers generally referred to the document as the PoPs, this continued to be a friendly poke in the eye from one mainframe competitor to another. During a technical presentation that I was doing in Kansas City, one attendee took strong objection to my terminology — asserting that I was "talking dirty" by using a scatological term for programming Scripture. After explaining the concepts of abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms, and mnemonics ad nauseum — and why PoO was the proper term to use — she conceded that perhaps I wouldn't burn in hell for all eternity ... just for a few millennia. PoO is still my choice.
