On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:52:12 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

>In
><cae1xxdgv26sbufjf9juia7ycx2q35u+sdm_8vxscfpgc75w...@mail.gmail.com>,
>on 09/18/2012
>   at 04:52 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>
>>My reasons for preferring 'PrOp' are three: 1) it is innocuously
>>pronounceable; 2) it is devoid of the vaguely scatological
>>connotations of its competitors; and 3) it is less clumsy than
>>they.
>
>Why not ProOps?

There are now several things that I recognize as short forms of Principles of 
Operation.  I continue to use the one that I first learned decades ago.  The 
problem with proposing a new one is that, if it is adopted, it becomes an 
additional one, not a replacement.  So far, I do not find any of the proposed 
replacements to be entirely satisfactory.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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