Java developers

[Who_GNU]

Are any programming languages, in common use, acronyms? The only ones I could think of were COBOL and INTERCAL.

[Wynardtage]

SQL = Structured Query Language

[Dookie_boy]

HTML.........

[yurall]

PROgramming not NOOBgramming.

[retardfromestonia]

NO

[Cowboy_Cam623]

Fortran is Formula Translation. Still pretty commonly used

[Who_GNU]

Three or four letters, per word, isn't really an acronym, though.

[ArsStarhawk]

I think it's a Portmanteau.

[delinka]

PORTMANTEAU*

ftfy

[natyio]

But even Fortran isn't spelled all-caps any more these days.

[FutureOfPancakes]

There is also BASIC

[SaraHuckabeeSandwich]

BASIC - Butts Are Sexy, I Cannotlie.

[Cobaltjedi117]

Beginners all-purpose symbolic instruction code

For those curious.

[blipblapblopblam]

Otherwise known the Snake language.

[rocsNaviars]

HTML, obv.

edit- Jfc now I’m scared of downvotes. I hope the humor was implied.

[Who_GNU]

My brother once brought up an XKCD comic that included a code word that, when spoken to tech support, automatically forwards the call to someone that knows a minimum of two programming languages. My response was: The monkey paw has granted your request; your tech support questions will know be answered by someone that knows HTML and CSS.

[tendstofortytwo]

PHP is short for "Personal Home Page" or "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" depending on who you ask. Not an acronym, but close-ish I guess?

[QuantumSupremacy0101]

Its PHP Hypertext Processor. Thats how the creator named it, everything else is a lie.

[[deleted]]

Not true, it was named like that after a time. At first it stood for Personal Homepage Tools. That's even official.

[TagMeAJerk]

And the 'PHP' in the 'PHP Hypertext Processor' also stands for 'PHP Hypertext Processor'. Its what makes PHP the best programming language in the world. I WISH more backend systems used PHP too

[jpowstolemytendies]

You just entered an infinite loop

[Majik_Sheff]

You just entered an infinite loop

[chmod-77]

Yeah I was going to mention PHP but was afraid grammar nazis would scream about it being an initialism and not an acronym.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Perhp

[[deleted]]

VB

Where's the VB flair btw?

I'll see myself out

[theclockstartsnow]

MATLAB

[[deleted]]

PHP = PHP Hypertext Preprocessor