The "plist" abbreviation goes back to at least 1958 as it was used in
the Lisp implementation [0]. And it may even predate Lisp. I'm very
sure that what actually went into a plist has often changed over the
years, but the name persists.
Lisp also used "association lists" [1] which were a key/value data
structure, usually called an "alist" or "a-list".
Ross
[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node108.html
[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node153.html
On 12/5/2561 BE 13:45, Bob Martin wrote:
in 793617 20180511 072806 Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Fri, 11 May 2018 07:20:36 +0000, Bob Martin wrote:
in 793605 20180511 044309 T Berger <brg...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 6:45:46 PM UTC-4, MRAB wrote:
On 2018-05-05 17:57, T Berger wrote:
What does the "p" in "plist" stand for? Is there a python glossary
that spells out the meanings of abbreviated terms?
"plist" is "property list". It's listed in the Python documentation.
Thanks for the answer. Missed it till now.
In IBM-speak it was parameter list.
But that's not where plists came from, was it? As I understand it, the
plist data format was invented by Apple, and they called it a property
list.
How old is Apple?
I was using plist for parameter list in OS/360 in 1965.
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