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The core of Oracles PL/SQL is called DIANA, distributed intermediate annotated notation (for) Ada.

And while I'm not too sure of the development history behind PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL (I suspect Oracle's PL/SQL had influence), the Ada influence necessarily shows there as well.

You are right, but it could be both.

No, it really cannot. It's a person's name.

Americans really love acronyms that spell out a word.

BASIC is a word, and it means Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.

I don't know why you think it's impossible to have an acronym spell a name?

lol because it's not an acronym in this case, as stated

The previous poster said it could be both, not that it is both. Apparently a lot of people think it is, which is because it's such a commonplace phenomenon.

That it is a person's name is orthogonal to whether it could be an acronym.

Thank you for making my point clearer than I did ! :-)

:)

BASIC / Basic isn't a person's name.

Then name your kid Basic and you see that any word can be a name, which makes this a meaningless distinction.

I thought it was both. But I never bothered to ask what it abbreviates.