Re: recursive acronym - PHP

Personally, I love things like this. I have a feeling that those of us not fond of such recursive acronyms are also not fan's of the old "Who's on first?" routine. Edward Dudlik "Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." wishy washy | www.amazon.com/o/registry/EGDXEBBWTYUU ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Taylor" <Lakario@msn.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; "Joachim Krebs" <docuk@gmx.net> Sent: Saturday, 01 November, 2003 16:28 Subject: Re: [PHP] recursive acronym - PHP 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 ----- Original Message ----- 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php