Abbreviations are great because they can be precise and they can make life easier by saving time and space.
Abbreviations are bad because they can make otherwise intelligent sentence in to alphabet soup, they are elitist, they are cryptic, they are not always unique and they can lead to the loss of the original idea.
Can you unpack these abbreviations?
GPL (as in GPL rights)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
The answer is: General Public License
AJAX
The answer is: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
ORM or O/RM
The answer is: Object relational mapping
UTC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
The answer is: Coordinated Universal Time
I18N
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization
The answer is: Internationalization
IMAP
Internet Message Access Protocol
The answer is: Internet Message Access Protocol
URL
The answer is: Uniform Resource Locator
W3C
The answer is: World Wide Web Consortium
URI
The answer is: Uniform Resource Identifier
CRUD
The answer is: create read update delete
DBAL
The answer is: database abstraction layer
ARP (database)
Default answer
The answer is: active record pattern
UML
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language
The answer is: Unified Modeling Language
L10N
The answer is: Localization
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