What does “Soar” stand for?
Historically, Soar stood for State, Operator And Result, because all problem solving in Soar is regarded as a search through a problem space in which you apply an operator to a state to get a result. Over time, the community no longer regarded Soar as an acronym: this is why it is no longer written in upper case. You can, in fact, tell who is in the Soar community by how they write the word Soar (or at least, tell who has read the FAQ!).
