Sam writes:
> I thought it was Post Office Protocol.
There is indeed a "POP = Post Office Protocol" and the likely confusion was
discussed in the required debate. At the end of this short debate no one
thought the risk of confusion between this protocol and the family of
programming languages stemming from the original Edinburgh POP-2 language
was a matter for concern.
We chose POP because it covers variants such as POP-1, POP-2, POP-11,
PopTalk, and AlphaPOP. The intention is to include all programming dialects
whose strongest influence can be traced back to that early Edinburgh
development. But how times change -- these days people have no respect for
the past (grumble, whinge) and we see modern day variants such as GLOW without
even the letter 'P' in it (mutter).
Apologies in advance to anyone who gets confused.
Steve
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