[asaph]

Am I the only one who saw the title and thought OTP was "one time password"?

[bmitc]

Yes. OTP is engrained in my head as the One True Programming (way of building large systems).

[tim333]

Googling OTP it Erlang comes no 9 in the results. The first three are One Time Password. I think there should be a rule to avoid unexplained abbreviations unless the meaning comes up easily in Google.

[eindiran]

I clicked thinking it was going to be about one-time programmable memory.

[andsoitis]

The domain name right along the title should give you a hint…

[LoganDark]

Nope. Should really say "Erlang OTP" or something

[Jtsummers]

The URL kind of gives away the theme of the site. And the first sentence starts with “Erlang/OTP”.

[Zondartul]

Quoting the article: "OTP stands for _Open Telecom Platform_, which is literally a meaningless name that was used to get the stuff open-sourced back in the old days of Erlang at Ericsson."

[fatkam]

probably not.

here is an answer from mistral-next:

> "OTP" can stand for different things depending on the context. However, in the context of transportation, it commonly stands for "One-Time Password". In the context of fanfiction, it can stand for "One True Pairing". In the context of Atlanta, Georgia, OTP stands for "Outside the Perimeter", referring to the areas outside of the Interstate 285 loop that encircles the city. Please provide more context if you meant a different usage.

Erlang OTP makes no sense... just like X, or Alphabet as company names

[hn_throwaway_99]

The article itself has a blurb that says what it stands for:

> OTP stands for _Open Telecom Platform_, which is literally a meaningless name that was used to get the stuff open-sourced back in the old days of Erlang at Ericsson.