Re: recursive acronym - PHP

From: Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2003 22:38:43 +0000
Subject: Re: recursive acronym - PHP
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Perhaps it is time to break the record. Evan Nemerson wrote:
How can you forget the Hurd??? http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html#name: "According to Thomas Bushnell, BSG, the primary architect of the Hurd: Hurd' stands for Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons'. And, then, `Hird' stands for `Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth'. We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms." On Saturday 01 November 2003 11:23 am, orlandopozo@icnet.com.ve 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.


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