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- From: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:40:21 GMT
- Subject: Re: What's pop?
- Message-ID: <116670005@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
- References: <1992Nov12.143019.13935@smds.com>
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- 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
-
-