Abbreviations

An overview of Haskell related abbreviations

Note: if there is an abbreviation you cannot find here, it might be the name of a package, so check the Hackage package list. For GHC related abbreviations, see GHC Source Code Abbreviations. The abbreviation might also indicate a conference.

ABI	Application Binary Interface
ADP	Algebraic Dynamic Programming
ADT	Abstract Data Type / Algebraic Data Type
AFAIC	As Far As I'm Concerned / As Far As I Can
AFAICS	As Far As I Can See
AFAICT	As Far As I Can Tell
AFAIK	As Far As I Know
AFAIU	As Far As I Understand
AFRP	Arrows-based Functional Reactive Programming
AKA	Also Known As
alist	Association list, a list of key-value pairs, [(key, value)]
AMP	Applicative-Monad Proposal
ANN	ANNouncement / Artificial Neural Network
API	Application Programming Interface
aPToP	A practical theory of programming
ASAP	As Soon As Possible
AST	Abstract syntax tree
AT	Abstract (Data) Type / Associated (Data) Type (see also Associated types with class)
BE	Big Endian
BSD	Berkeley Software Distributions (license)
Cabal	Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries
CAF	Constant Applicative Form
CAML	A programming language
CFG	Context-Free Grammar
CFP	Call For Papers - request to send material for a symposium
CLC	Core Libraries Committee
CPR	Constructed Product Result (analysis)
CPS	Continuation-Passing Style
CSE	Common subexpression elimination
CUFP	Commercial Users of Functional Programming
DAG	Directed acyclic graph
DFA	Deterministic Finite Automaton, Data Flow Analysis, Differential Fault Analysis or Dual Factor Authentication
DPH	Data Parallel Haskell
DRY	Don't repeat yourself
DSEL	Domain-Specific Embedded Language
DSL	Domain-Specific Language
DVCS	Distributed Version Control System
EDSL	Embedded Domain-Specific Language
EHC	The Essential Haskell Compiler
elt	Element (of a list/set/...)
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
FD	Functional Dependencies
FFI	Foreign Function Interface
FHM	Functional Hybrid Modeling
FPL	Functional Programming Language
FTFY	Fixed That For You
FRP	Functional Reactive Programming
FSF	Free Software Foundation
FTP	Foldable/Traversable in Prelude proposal
FTW	For The World / For The Win
FunDeps	Functional Dependencies
FWIW	For what it's worth
GCC	GNU Compiler Collection
GHC	Glasgow Haskell Compiler
GPL	GNU General Public License
GPL2	GNU General Public License, Version 2
GPL3	GNU General Public License, Version 3
GSoC	Google Summer of Code
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HaLVM	Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine
HBC	Haskell-B Compiler
HBI	Haskell-B Interpreter
HCAR	Haskell Communities and Activities Report
HIE	Haskell IDE Engine
HNF	Head Normal Form
HOAS	Higher-Order Abstract Syntax (using binding in the host language to represent binding in the embedded language)
HOF	Higher-Order Functions
HPC	Haskell Program Coverage, a tool-kit to record and display Haskell program coverage / Haskell Prime Committee / High Performance Computing
HPFFP	Haskell Programming From First Principles (book)
HSE	Haskell-Source with Extensions (a package on Hackage, haskell-src-exts); an extension of the standard haskell-src package
HTH	Hope This Helps
HTML	HyperText Markup Language
HUGS	Haskell User's Gofer System
HWN	Haskell Weekly News
I18n	Internationalization / Internationalisation (which shows why the abbreviation is useful)
IANAL	I Am Not A Lawyer
ICFP	International Conference on Functional Programming
IFL	Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, symposium
IHG	Industrial Haskell Group
IIRC	If I Recall Correctly
IIUIC	If I Understand It Correctly
IIUC	If I Understand Correctly
IME	In My Experience
IMHO	In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO	In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO	In My Opinion
IOW	In Other Words
IR	Intermediate Representation in a two-phase compiler
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
ISTR	I Seem To Recall
JFYI	Just For Your Information
JHC	John's Haskell Compiler. Compiles to efficient C programs via whole program analysis and other optimizations.
JVM	Java Virtual Machine
LE	Little Endian
LGPL	GNU Lesser General Public License
LHC	LLVM Haskell Compiler. LHC is a whole-program optimizing backend for the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler
LHS	Left-Hand Side (of a statement)
LLVM	Low-Level Virtual Machine
LSP	Language Server Protocol (used by the Haskell IDE Engine)
LtU	Lambda the Ultimate (Website)
LYH	Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
LYAH	Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
LYAHFGG	Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
MFP	MonadFail Proposal
ML	A programming language / Mailing List / Machine Learning
MMR	MonoMorphism Restriction
MPTC	Multi-Parameter Type Class
MR	Monomorphism Restriction
MRP	Monad of no `return` Proposal (MRP): Moving `return` out of `Monad`
MTL	Monad Transformer Library
NCG	Native Code Generator, a GHC backend
NF	Normal Form, in addition to the explanations in the Wikipedia article, a fully evaluated expression
nhc98	Nearly a Haskell Compiler
NLP	Natural Language Processing
OCAML	Objective Caml (A programming language)
OOM	Out Of Memory
OP	Original Poster (who sent the first e-mail of the current thread) or Original Post (the first e-mail of the current thread)
OT	Off-Topic
PADL	Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, symposium
PM	Personal Message, a message to someone on a message board, that no one else can read
POPL	Principles of Programming Languages, Symposium on
POV	Point Of View
ppl	People
PR	Pull Request
PRNG	Pseudorandom number generator
PVP	Package versioning policy
RDP	Reactive Demand Programming
RFC	Request For Comments
RHS	Right-Hand Side (of a statement)
RNG	Random number generator
RWH	Real World Haskell, a book about Haskell
SAT	SATisfiability problem
SEC	Semantic editor combinator
SHE	Strathclyde Haskell Enhancement, an experimental preprocessor for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler
SICP	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
SML	Standard ML, a programming language
SMP	Symmetric Multi-Processing
SMT	Satisfiability Modulo Theories
SO	StackOverflow, a programming question and answer site
SOE	Haskell School Of Expression (title of a book)
SORF	Simple Overloaded Record Fields
SPJ	Simon Peyton Jones
SPOJ	Sphere Online Judge, an online judge system with over 9000 problems. The solution to problems can be submitted in over 40 languages, including Haskell
SQL	Structured Query Language
STG machine	Spineless Tagless G-machine
STLC	Simply Typed Lambda Calculus
STM	Software transactional memory
SYB	Scrap Your Boilerplate
TaPL	Types and Programming Languages (book)
TCM	Type Class Morphism
TCO	Tail-Call Optimization
TDNR	Type Directed Name Resolution
TF	Type families
TFP	Trends in Functional Programming, symposium
TH	Template Haskell
TIA	Thanks In Advance
TIL	Today I Learned
tl;dr	Too Long; Didn't Read
TLDR	Too Long; Didn't Read
TMI	Too Much Information
TMR	The Monad.Reader
TTBOMK	To the best of my knowledge
UHC	Utrecht Haskell Compiler
UTF8	Unicode Transformation Format, byte-oriented (also written as UTF-8)
VCS	Version Control System
VPS	Virtual Private Server, a virtual machine for hosting a website
WHNF	Weak Head Normal Form
wrt	With Respect To, or With Regard To
XML	eXtensible Markup Language
YAHT	Yet Another Haskell Tutorial
YHC	York Haskell Compiler
YMMV	Your Mileage May Vary