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Admin
If TLA is "three letter acronym" then FLA must be "four letter acronym".
Or possibly "frist letter acronym".
Admin
I am far too biased against C++ to discuss this WTF.
Admin
It's good to see that fans of Front Line Assembly are still getting coding jobs.
Admin
A four letter acronym is ETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym
Edit Admin
Upvote.
Edit Admin
No, it's an FLT (four letter TLA)
Admin
Why do people have such a morbid fear of the word "abbreviation" that they feel compelled to use a wrong word instead?
Edit Admin
Or "abbreviature", as my predecessors preferred.
Admin
"The specific meaning of most of the acronyms are mostly lost to time"? I've got another TLA: SVA. Subject-verb agreement is not one of Remy's strong suits, or he'd write the specific meaning ... IS mostly lost to time. Like training in basic English grammar.
Edit Admin
On the subject of training in basic English grammar, I imagine the acronyms all have different meanings. So really it should be 'The specific meaningS of most of the acronyms are mostly lost to time'. The worst thing about that sentence is 'most' and 'mostly' though.
Edit Admin
He's only mostly dead.
Edit Admin
"TLA" is an initialism, if we are going to be pedantic. Initialisms and acronyms are both abbreviations.
Edit Admin
[snort] if, don't make me laugh
Edit Admin
What's ~~a spline?~~ TMAMCU?
Admin
Not necessarily. It might have been a five letter acronym. All I can say is that it wasn't a rare SLA.
Edit Admin
Is that "double spacing of lines" voluntary, or the result of some unfortunate newline translation?
Edit Admin
I had a college English professor make that same mistake and defend it, so it's not crazy. It was a 101 class though...
Admin
That's fair, for semantic sense. I'd probably have said meanings...are myself, or the meaning of almost each...is.