Alphabet Soup

A dish, principally aimed at children, in which the pasta in a Minestrone is in the form of the letters of the alphabet. (In the UK, "Alphabetti Spaghetti".)
The hell of TrulyHorribleAcronyms we all live in nowadays in which vendors come up with more and more libraries and we can't remember what any of them do.

Alphabet soups as of 2005: XML, DTD, XSD, CSS, XHTML, XSL, XSP, SOAP, XML-RPC, WSDL, UDDI, WS-I, WS-*, SAX, DOM, JAXP, JAXB, RDF, J2EE, J2ME, JTS, JTA, JMS, EJB, JDO, SOA, JSP, JSF, AJAX

Bingo!

The above would be approximately for a job interview related to "java enterprise".

We used to exchange media on tapes, records, and disks. Now we use CD's, CD-ROM's, and DVD's. Notice the apostrophes, which are proper for pluralizing alphabet soup, but I fear this helps encourage people to use them in other inappropriate place's. I suppose we still need the acronyms to distinguish CD's from DVD's, but I wish we'd taken the 80's approach so that we could call DVD's "double-density disks".

Why are the apostrophes appropriate? They seem unnecessary.

Apostrophes are acceptable for acronyms, according to most authorities I'm aware of.

See discussion at EatsShootsAndLeaves.

[Hey, pals, 'CD' and 'DVD' are abbreviations. AcronymVsAbbreviation.]