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Oh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive
by zhemao 13y ago
Oh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive algorithm?
- kostya-kow 13y agoIt would've been mutually recursive if Lisp (language) stood for something else which referenced Lisp (contest). But it doesn't, so you probably discovered a new type of recursive acronyms. Hurd is an example of mutually recursive acronym: "The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons", and "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
- pavelludiq 13y agoThere is a book called Lisp in Small pieces, which I assume inspired the name, also a lisp tutorial called "Lisp in small parts": http://lisp.plasticki.com/ http://lisp.plasticki.com/ also probably inspired by the book title.
- neutronicus 13y agoA recursive acronym with a termination condition.
- ohyes 13y agoA recursive acronym with a shift/reduce conflict.