Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoTIL that the P in PHP stands for PHPen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down13
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minus-square0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·20 days agoyou won’t believe what the W stands for in WINE. There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
minus-squarestickyprimer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·19 days 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)
minus-squarevortexsurfer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·19 days agoMy favorite is GNU Hurd, a mutually recursive acronym!
you won’t believe what the W stands for in WINE.
There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
_ Nested_ recursive acronyms, even!
My favorite is GNU Hurd, a mutually recursive acronym!