Sass, Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets or Semantically Awesome Style Sheets?

Question

Kind of a minor and 'technical' question here, but I was curious all the same.

I know that Sass isn't an acronym and has a backronym. Everywhere on the web I see "SYNTACTICALLY Awesome Style Sheets", including Wikipedia.

On the video series by the creator of Sass he mentions that it stands for "SEMANTICALLY Awesome Style Sheets, which is also reflected in the quizzes.

I noticed that I was looking for "Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets", which I couldn't find.

So was this, a slip of the tongue, or have we all been saying it wrong?

Once again, a very minor thing, and really not that important, just curious as to what the 'real' name is.

Thanks.

Answer 1 · 2013-12-03T17:14:44Z

December 3, 2013 5:14pm

Honestly, the acronymization happened haphazardly. I think both are fine. There is only one truth, the one you want it to be.

Sass is also:

But, you are right. I should have gone with the official acronym in the video. GOOD CATCH!

Answer 2 · 2013-12-03T13:49:29Z

December 3, 2013 1:49pm

Hmm, I see that the title of the Sass website is "Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets"

Answer 3 · 2013-12-03T21:50:36Z

December 3, 2013 9:50pm

Just as long as you don't write it "SASS" in all caps, no one is going to care.

Answer 4 · 2013-12-03T23:36:41Z

December 3, 2013 11:36pm

Haha, thanks everybody with your answers - I like the 'mysterious' nature of the SASS backronym ;).

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