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ITWAMTSP: I Think We're All Making The Same Point

Jason C. McDonald on January 31, 2017

Originally published on Indelible Blue Pen Programmers have an odd obsession with acronyms. We pepper our conversations with them until it sounds ...
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Jenny Nguyen

I’ve never heard of these long acronyms before (I’ve heard of NIH) but I’m not surprised they’re out there. Very interesting similarity they show; it really is like the Duck and Rabbit analogy that you pointed out. Thanks for the long acronym pronouciation hints by the way; I had been scratching my head wondering how to say them.

TAMESFA sounds like a good one as it does cover the common ground between the Tim Toady and Too Toady camps. I guess it won’t work in a time restricted situation (e.g. hackathons, coding competitions), but would be lovely in a not as timed constricted environment. I’m not sure how to pronounce it though.

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Jason C. McDonald

How about "tame-es-fa"?

I agree, how elegant you can actually make the code is time-dependent, but that's a whole other topic of discussion and debate, to be sure!