Jargons of Info Tech industry

[Roedy Green]

On 11 Aug 2005 18:23:42 -0700, "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote or
quoted :

>The Jargons of
>marketing came from business practice, and they can be excusable
>because they are kinda a necessity or can be considered as a naturally
>evolved strategy for attracting attention in a laissez-faire economy
>system.

Jargon is a name that hides what it does.  The idea is those in the
know can sound much more intelligent than they really are.

In Java you have the JDK -- Java Development Kit.  That is a pretty
clear name for what it is.

You have the JRE the Java Runtime Environment. I might have shortened
it to Java Base.

Oak, Tiger, Dragonfly etc are internal codenames. They are really
nobody's business but Sun's.


You have JAF -- Java Activation Framework. Now that's jargon. You have
no idea knowing its name what it is for.

JMF Java Media Framework could have been shortened to Java Media.

JavaMail is pretty clear.

Java Web Start is self-explanatory.  Perhaps Java Web Launch would be
a tiny bit clearer.

J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition. The 2 is a lot of Bullshit.  Sun
marketing people keep trying to screw with the logical progression of
version numbers.  The edition says nothing, and the Enterprise gives
you a hint this is not for hobbyist programmers.


J2SE Java 2 Standard Edition. This is needlessly wordy. they could
have called it Standard Java.

If you use short names then you don't need acronyms.  Without
acronyms, names can be self-explanatory.

I think your beef is not with Jargon, but with so many acronyms.