Jeez, I was wondering what was the deal with their choice of acronyms.  While 
funny now, it made it rather difficult to grok their API quickly.

Alexey
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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Marcelo Fukushima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Marcelo Fukushima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: POI stands for....
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:36 AM

some of the classes are also bitter-named:
HSSF stands for Horrible SpreadSheet Format

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> // shows my age
>
> ...allegedly POI originally stood for "Poor Obfuscation
> Implementation", and no doubt reflects early frustration with the
> arbitrarily silly Microsoft file formats.
>
> But I think at some point relations improved with Microsoft, and so in
> order to play nice, the original unofficial meaning of POI was
> redacted.  Now it doesn't stand for anything.
>
>
>
> >
>



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