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Article #2153Re: TLAs (was Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym)
From: zma... Simon E Spero
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 1990 17:41
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 1990 17:41
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>>>>> On 2 Apr 90 13:00:27 GMT, rbr...@sjofn.cs.cornell.edu (Russell Brown) said: RB> We obviously need a larger alphabet, since there are nowhere RB> near enough three letter acronyms to go around. After all, 26^3 RB> is only 17576, and that's not even enough to give a TLA to each RB> VAX machine instruction, let alone cover all of the commercial and RB> military applications. Maybe we should follow U*ix's lead and RB> make acronyms case sensitive. That will buy us a factor of eight RB> in the number of distinct TLAs. This is a possible solution, but not the optimal one. An alternate solution is to switch to ETLA (Enhanced TLA). This provides a factor of twenty six improvement. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ zmacx07@uk.ac.ic.doc | sispe...@specialix.co.uk | ..!ukc!slxsys!cix!sispero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Can programming be liberated from the Von Neumann style? No FP, No Comment. "The GNU Manifesto refers to all Software, not just Editors" | (I'm the FSF)
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!zmacx07 From: zma...@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon E Spero) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: TLAs (was Re: YAA -- Yet Another Acronym) Message-ID: <ZMACX07.90Apr3174130@tcsun1.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 3 Apr 90 17:41:30 GMT References: <1990Mar26.115358.912@eng.umd.edu> <2309@tellab5.tellabs.com> <ENTROPY.90Mar29111836@pawl22.pawl.rpi.edu> <54248@bbn.COM> <15006@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <15313@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <39365@cornell.UUCP> Sender: ne...@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: The Society of the Department of Computing, Imperial College Lines: 19 Posted: Tue Apr 3 18:41:30 1990 In-reply-to: rbrown@sjofn.cs.cornell.edu's message of 2 Apr 90 13:00:27 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit