Re: recursive acronym - PHP
| From: | Nathan Taylor | Date: | Sat, 01 Nov 2003 21:28:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: recursive acronym - PHP | ||
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Why must the powers that be create such mind-bendingly painful terms such as these? They are the
sort of things that send my brain into an infinite loop.
Nathan
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From: Joachim Krebs
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] recursive acronym - PHP
Or LAME for "Lame Ain't an MP3 Encoder"
Larry E . Ullman wrote:
>> Why PHP is a recursive acronym?, I know that before was called
>> Personal Home Page, I now is Hypertext PreProcessor, but why is
>> recursive?, I person told me that it could be wroten as Pre Hypertxt
>> Processor, thanks.
>
>
> PHP stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". It's called a recursive
> acronym because it uses itself in its definition. Another example: GNU,
> for "GNU's Not Unix".
>
> Larry
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