Comment by neogodless

8 years ago

Thanks! I get that if you don't already know the acronym, you're not the audience, but it is helpful to not have to search externally for a reference. Could you imagine if that was in a general programming magazine before global internet search engines were popular? You'd have to cross your fingers that your local encyclopedia has an entry!

ETA: My bad - I did not think to click that. Embarrassing. Thanks for pointing it out!

3 comments

neogodless

Reply
tempay  8 years ago

In fairness the first word of the article is SIMD with a hyperlink to the Wikipedia page.

pjc50  8 years ago

> Could you imagine if that was in a general programming magazine before global internet search engines were popular?

Style manuals of the time encouraged expanding acronyms on first use, but I can imagine this wasn't consistently done in a technical field!