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Isn't there a better alternative to an abbreviation that's already widely used in the software engineering context?

PPC is pay per click, which is more likely to create confusion in a web dev context. PCP is less widely used in a software engineering and web developer context (one hopes anyway), but probably not something you want to be searching for from a work computer.

If we could get away from policies though, Performant Content Contracts doesn't overlap with much that is CS related.

PCP is also Performance Co-Pilot, a relatively widely-used systems performance tool. :)

The CPP abbreviation is used to be consistent with CSP.

What has Communicating Sequential Processes got do do with it??

Content Security Policy in this instance

Just correct him/her if you don't think it's a joke, why the down vote?

Best part is AMP is a C++ library.

Search engines already deal just fine with context. Just type in “cpp language” or “cpp html,” respectively.

I think everyone keeps making name collisions to be a much bigger deal than they are in reality.

If it was a minor collision, sure. But CPP is one of the most used programming languages on the planet. I suppose you think we should create standards for C++ and call them JS or RB or py, for short?

If you can always find what you’re looking for for any non-trivial (2 keywords or more) search terms, how is it not a minor collision? “CPP” is not even the name of the language—it’s the file extension.

EDIT: Mostly I’m just annoyed that those useless off-topics about naming keep crowding out actual discussion.

But CPP is the name of the language!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_preprocessor

You are contradicted by literally the first sentence in that article.

cpp html: http://imgur.com/gV3dMI9

It's going to take significant momentum to displace "CPP" in the appropriate computing contexts.

Yeah but if you search for “cpp amp” it’s already mid-page, despite there being a C++ project with the same name. The page has hardly any backlinks yet.

Anyway if discoverability is an issue they can always give it a catchy marketing name (Project Swift Gazelle) later. CPP is the appropriate name for the proposal, given the relevant context.

Alternative name: CWP for Content Weight Policy :)

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