Well, I figured I may as well make the first post in my PH blog vaguely controversial. If the title's not enough for you, then let me go on to suggest that the Bible has some useful advice in it for those of us trying to decode the continual stream of acronyms that the computing industry likes to throw at us.

"What has been will be again,
 what has been done will be done again;
 there is nothing new under the sun."
    -- Ecclesiastes 1:9

One of the things that amuses me most about the computing industry is how we seem to keep getting shiny new names for the same old technologies, perhaps just applied in a different problem domain or using a different language.

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