Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTIL that the P in PHP stands for PHPen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down13
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minus-square0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·1 day agoyou won’t believe what the W stands for in WINE. There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
minus-squarevortexsurfer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 hours agoMy favorite is GNU Hurd, a mutually recursive acronym!
minus-squarestickyprimer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·21 hours ago_ Nested_ recursive acronyms, even! This inspired the two MIT Lisp Machineeditors called EINE (“EINE Is Not Emacs”, German for one) and ZWEI(“ZWEI Was EINE Initially”, German for two)
you won’t believe what the W stands for in WINE.
There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
My favorite is GNU Hurd, a mutually recursive acronym!
_ Nested_ recursive acronyms, even!