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Recursive acronyms are a staple of hacker culture by now. There's of course GNU (and many GNU projects) but also PHP, PINE and many backronyms like XBMC: https:
by simias 8y ago
Recursive acronyms are a staple of hacker culture by now. There's of course GNU (and many GNU projects) but also PHP, PINE and many backronyms like XBMC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
- maxmcd 8y agoYou mean "Personal Home Page"? :)
- isostatic 8y agoRecursive acronyms often get redefined down the line
- jsjohnst 8y agoPHP was originally “Personal Home Page”. It wasn’t until version 3 that it became a recursive acronym in an attempt to legitimize it for more than personal projects.
- isostatic 8y agoPHP hypertext preprocessor I believe? PHP3 was the first "real" version of PHP, it came out in 97, and wasn't called personal home page tools then. O'Reilly didn't have a PHP book until 99 if I remember rightly.
- johnhenry 8y agoNot technically recursive because the "Q" does not stand for "QUIC".
- zamalek 8y agoIt does, if you get rid of the redundant K, but I don't think they were thinking that deeply about it when they arrived at QUIC. It's an attempted recursive acronym.