July 11, 2000

12:44 PM

At work, I'm working on applying XSL transforms to XML documents to get HTML, HDML, and WML pages via an ISAPI filter for IIS. Maybe eventually I'll play with DISCO, and then I'll move on to SOAP, ROPE, and maybe even SAX. When will the acronymical madness stop?
posted by endquote (8 comments total)

RSN, imho.
posted by snarkout at 12:52 PM on July 11, 2000

What will technology companies do when they run out of acronyms to name their products?

Oh. Never mind.
posted by harmful at 1:08 PM on July 11, 2000

So... if you can use the SOAP protocol in the ROPE Object Model, would you call that SOAP on a ROPE?
posted by deckard at 1:30 PM on July 11, 2000

ASAP, imho, ROPE, SAX wtf? brb, afk...
posted by Zebulun at 2:08 PM on July 11, 2000

Yep, deckard. I think that's pretty much the idea. Developers are funny like that.
posted by endquote at 2:43 PM on July 11, 2000

my friend who works for microsoft told me that they actually have a guy there whose only job is to come up with three-letter acronyms for all their stuff. he calls them TLAs.
posted by bluishorange at 2:54 PM on July 11, 2000

SOAP on a ROPE and DISCO make SAX more fun!
posted by quonsar at 4:57 PM on July 11, 2000

"I'm working on applying XSL transforms to XML documents to get HTML, HDML, and WML pages via an ISAPI filter for IIS."

Geez, and I thought translating ASP/VBScript into Perl was bad.
posted by CrayDrygu at 9:07 PM on July 11, 2000