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| | The Recursive Ray Tracing Algorithm |
 | | Recursion is a means of obtaining a result in which a given process repeats itself an arbitrary number of times. | | | Often, the basic ray tracing algorithm is called a "recursive" algorithm. | | | The ray tracing algorithm, too, is recursive, but it is finitely recursive. |
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http://www.geocities.com/jamisbuck/raytracing.html#ListOfFigures
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| | GNU-Overflow - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) |
| | Until the bug is fixed, we urge you to download the temporary patch from your nearest mirror site and keep in mind that this process of continuous revision is what has made both free software and human language into forces to be reckoned with. | | | All sites running GNU software are urged to apply a temporary patch which changes the expansion of the acronym to "GNU Needs Users", until a permanent patch is avaliable. | | | Although no exploit has yet been discovered, a malicious user could theoretically embed commands into the same section of text as the acronym expansion, allowing them to change the syntax of the language, redefine words, and create new figures of speech with arbitrary meanings. |
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http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnu-overflow.html
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| | High-Tech Dictionary Definition |
| | (GNU's Not UNIX!).A recursive acronym; the name of the Free Software Foundation's freely distributable replacement for UNIX. |
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http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/definition.html?lookup=2722
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| | recursive definition from FOLDOC |
| | Nearby terms: recursion theory « recursive « recursive acronym « recursive definition » recursive descent parser » Recursive Functional Algorithmic Language » Recursive Macro Actuated Generator |
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http://ftp.sunet.se/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?recursive+definition
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| | Someplace Somewhere - Funny Computer Acronyms |
| | Posted - Jan 14 2004 : 7:39:04 PM After seeing someone defined Windows ME to mean "More Errors", a few humorous acronyms came to mind. | | | LISP - Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses (a programming language in which it is not uncommon for programs to have parentheses nested ten levels or more) | | | Posted - Jan 15 2004 : 03:01:56 AM I'm not that computer savvy, so maybe I've missed the point, but I've always found RAID (random array of irrelevant(?) discs) rather humorous. |
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http://www.someplacesomewhere.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20879
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| | Word Spy - recursive acronym |
| | Recursive acronyms are found almost exclusively in computing circles. | | | "Mark of the Unicorn, the program's publisher, sold it in the form of an editor named MINCE (a recursive acronym for 'MINCE Is Not Complete EMACS') and a print formatter called Scribble." | | | An acronym that refers to itself, usually by incorporating the acronym as the first word in the expanded phrase. |
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http://www.wordspy.com/words/recursiveacronym.asp
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| | Unix Acronyms Incorrect! Possible Paradox... - LinuxQuestions.org |
| | We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms. | | | Since we're getting all geeky with each other, that one would be a circular reference, not infinite recursion. | | | GNU = GNU's Not Unix = How can GNU's be embedded in GNU |
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=741434
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| | recursion from FOLDOC |
| | Functional programming languages rely heavily on recursion, using it where a procedural language would use iteration. | | | The canonical example of a recursive function is factorial: | | | If the call is via one or more other functions then this group of functions are called "mutually recursive". |
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http://www.instantweb.com/D/dictionary/foldoc.cgi?recursion
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| | PHP Basics |
| | PHP is a recursive acronym for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor." This is in the GNU software tradition of using recursive names. | | | GNU itself stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" GNU is a project started in 1984 by Richard Stallman at M.I.T. to develop a Unix-like operating system for free. | | | Using their online manual, which I cannot praise enough, I was writing working PHP code inside of two hours, and I'm not exactly a master programmer. |
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http://www.gilesorr.com/papers/PHP
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| | Define acronym - a Whatis.com definition - see also: apronym, backronym, recursive acronym |
| | An initialism is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each word in the phrase (thus, some but not all initialisms are acronyms). | | | Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms. | | | Frequently, acronyms are formed that use existing words (and sometimes the acronym is invented first and the phrase name represented is designed to fit the acronym). |
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http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci211518,00.html
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| | RAS Syndrome MetaFilter |
| | Whatever you call it, the phenomenon is much more widespread than we imagined, and our postbag has been bulging with examples. | | | If you're geeky enough you purposely try to name software packages you write such that they're recursive acronyms. | | | My scanner talks to my computer using a TWAIN driver(Technology Without An Interesting Name). |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25854
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| | The Novice’s Guide to Forums - W3Reports - Daily Webmaster News |
| | PHP &; Hypertext Preprocessor (Recursive acronym) - Open source software that generates dynamic pages. | | | Hosting Account – Every website needs to be placed onto a computer which then serves files to other computers. | | | Before you consider different forum software, you need primitive knowledge of how forum software works. |
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http://www.w3reports.com/index.php?itemid=379
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| | GNU is Not Unix - SWiK |
| | (GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU& Not UNIX"; it is pronounced "guh-noo.") Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel [[Linux]], are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as "Linux", they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems. | | | The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software: the GNU system. | | | Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as “Linux”, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems. |
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http://swik.net/gnu
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| | Literal-Minded: Double Portmanteaus and Stacked Acronyms |
| | But HPSG is an acronym for Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. | | | The problem again is that I'm thinking of acronyms as more like phrases than words. | | | In other words, smog is more like a phrase than a word: Just as I like traffic cannot mean the same thing as I like traffic lights, so -og cannot mean the same thing as smog. |
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http://literalmind.blogspot.com/2004/12/double-portmanteaus-and-stacked.html
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| | Semantic Compositions: Recursive acronyms |
| | Your host would guess that the most well-known such acronym is GNU, which expands to "GNU's Not UNIX", which could in turn expand to: "GNU's Not UNIX Not UNIX", "GNU's Not UNIX Not UNIX Not UNIX", and so forth. | | | This reminded SC of something that passes for humor among computer scientists, the recursive acronym. | | | Or perhaps it should be "GNU's Not UNIX's Not UNIX", the "'s" string not being deleted on subsequent expansions. |
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http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/06/recursive_acron.html
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| | The NAVE Virtual Environment |
| | NAVE can also be an acronym that summarizes its primary objective (Non-expensive Automatic Virtual Environment). | | | As demonstrated by the popularity of the CAVE and the Virtual Workbench products, there is a great amount of interest in projected stereoscopic environments as an alternative to head-mounted displays. | | | Software support for the NAVE is based on the Simple Virtual Environments (SVE) Toolkit. |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/jarrell.pair/NAVE/purpose.html
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| | GoLoads Software Downloads AcronymGenie 4.2 |
| | AcronymGenie is a simple desktop program that lets you look up the expansion of a computer acronym, abbreviation or initialism using an offline database. | | | The Help file explains all the features of the program in detail. | | | A list of keyboard shortcuts is also provided. |
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http://www.goloads.com/program.php?ID=225
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| | [No title] |
| | Richard M. Stallman (RMS, widely known for creating EMACS) is writing a UNIX clone called GNU (which means Gnu's Not Unix--a recursive acronym). | | | I believe the correct acronym is: Emacs Makes All Computing Simple Thank you, and Good Night /* End of text from inmet:net.emacs */ From: ho95e!wcs@mit-eddie (Bill.Stewart.4K435.x0705) Newsgroups: net.emacs Subject: Re: EMACS -- What does it mean? | | | This seems to open the way to a whole gnu class of jokes. |
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http://www.math.psu.edu/Doc/emacs/etc/JOKES
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| | Talk:Recursive acronym - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format unofficially also stands for "PNG is Not GIF" | | | Thus, in the case of GNU, the definition "GNU is Not Unix" is not a rigorous definition, since the term GNU has not been explained fully (it has only been stated that it isn't Unix). | | | The only example of a recursive acronym I've seen is in Hofstadter's GEB, where one of the characters asks a question to GOD. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Recursive_acronym
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| | [No title] |
| | Every deeper level discovers new information, while containing all the information that was found at all higher levels. | | | In the first example, the first sentence is an acronym for the paragraph. | | | A book might be written which reads the same whether you read only the first letter of each chapter, or the first letter of each sentence, or the first letter of each word, or all the individual words. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~jimhenry/writ/recursiv.txt
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| | GNU - Ursine |
| | (acronym: ‘GNU’s Not Unix!', see recursive acronym) A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman. | | | GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. | | | If you have something to contribute, please feel free to edit this page. |
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http://ursine.ca/GNU
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| | recursive acronym - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | recursive acronym : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "recursive acronym" is defined. | | | We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word recursive acronym: |
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http://onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=recursive+acronym
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| | interactive design 2 - wk04c - dreamweaver/php |
| | The curious can visit Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing for more information on recursive acronyms. | | | PHP is a programming language designed to be embedded directly in the HTML of web pages. | | | This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. |
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http://mdp.artcenter.edu/~vanallen/idesign2/2003su/idesign2_wk04c.html
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| | dataisnature.com » Minara Is Not A Recursive Acronym |
| | Minara is a vector drawing app written in the Scheme dialect of Lisp that you can open the hood of and mess with its engine. | | | It’s main advantage over typical vector drawing programs is its ability to be customised in all directions from the bottom up. | | | Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: |
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http://dataisnature.com/?p=253
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| | ACRONYMPHOBIA |
| | Admittedly, acronyms can lead to ambiguity or outright jocularity, but for reasons of alacrity, efficacy and sanity, we must use them reliably, indubitably. | | | It seems all of the 3-letter acronyms and abbreviations have been taken--many several times over--but there is more than one way to SKIN a CAT. | | | Your program contains at least thirty-two acronyms (some repeated) including eleventeen which you perpetrated yourselves. |
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http://physics.unl.edu/directory/ducharme/MISC/Acronymphobia.html
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| | Clemens Vasters: Enterprise Development and Alien Abductions - Recursive Acronym |
| | In addition, my thoughts and opinions often change, and as a weblog is intended to provide a semi-permanent point in time snapshot you should not consider out of date posts to reflect my current thoughts and opinions. | | | Don points out that "IBM" is a recursive acronym. | | | Clemens Vasters: Enterprise Development and Alien Abductions - Recursive Acronym |
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http://staff.newtelligence.net/clemensv/PermaLink,guid,143.aspx
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| | But those are established technologies, and artists and artisans have for ages worked out the details of what they can do, could do - and VR and CAVE VR needs that work - needs the loving attention ofthose willing to learn it as deeply as they can. | | | AVE, is a recursive acronym - standing for CAVE automatic, virtual environment - standing for CAVE audio visual environment etc - snigger. | | | You're not really, really going to "get" the recursive joke unless you too have struggled with the Towers of Hanoi problem. |
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http://www.evl.uic.edu/anstey/SEMINARS/563/eight.html
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| | Marco Tabini’s Weblog » Blog Archive » How we failed the PHP brand |
| | This offers a nice segue to the fact that PHP was originally conceived specifically to solve the web problem, and it’s grown and evolved into the most popular web development technology, because it does that better than anything else. | | | Sotto voce: “What the hell is a recursive acronym“ | | | I usually avoid the recursive acronym conversation by using Personal Home Page. |
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http://blogs.phparch.com/mt?p=125
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| | The BioBricks Foundation:FAQ - OpenWetWare |
| | We aren’t formally affiliated, but Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman (two of our contributors) have been closely involved with the FSF. | | | There’s no Microsoft of biological engineering, who are you guys fighting? | | | Our acronym isn’t recursive because we’re biological engineers, you hax0r. |
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http://openwetware.org/wiki/The_BioBricks_Foundation:FAQ
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| | c4.net :: Feature Stories and Editorials :: To Blog, or Not to Blog? - Part 1 |
| | It's sort of like that recurisve acronym, GNU, except its a recursive discovery mechanism, a way to spread information without editors, approval processes, publication schedules, etc. | | | Bloggers tend to find other bloggers interesting, read their sites with some regularity, find a piece of information that they find interesting, share that on their own site, and so on and so forth. | | | The latter camp of spams and recursive acronyms tends to reflect the irreverent humor and interests of techies, including things like Star Trek and The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, among other things. |
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http://www.c4.net/Index.cfm?Method=NewsStories.NewsStory&NewsStory_ID=146
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| | GNU - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | GNU means GNU's Not Unix (a recursive acronym). | | | The GNU Project was launched by Richard Stallman in 1983 to build a free operating system. | | | Gnu is also a name of an animal, see gnu. |
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http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU
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| | Lowlife -- a Linux floppy from scratch |
| | Now some information I might find useful for you :) | | | The original location of this html file is | | | It's not yet another recursive acronym, neither a non-recursive acronym; it's just refers to the "native" circumstances of usage and the circumstances of producing it. |
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http://www.creo.hu/~csaba/lowlife
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| | Xah: The Unix Pestilence: GNU |
| | The name GNU is a “recursive acronym”, standing for “Gnu's Not Unix”. | | | The project is to create a operating system and complete suit of applications that allows anyone to distribute and modify freely. | | | The acronym kicks sloppy happy-go-lucky unix moron's asses. |
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http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/gnur.html
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| | recursion - Wiktionary |
| | (for n > 0) or 1 (for n = 0) defines the factorial function using recursion. | | | The image below was generated using recursion, embedding a (former) image of this page in the image itself, then reducing this in size and embedding it in the image itself, and so on. | | | This page was last modified 22:23, 2 February 2006. |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Recursion
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| | Info Node: (texinfo)acronym |
| | For instance (since GNU is a recursive acronym, we use `@acronym' recursively): @acronym{GNU, @acronym{GNU}'s Not Unix} produces: GNU (@acronym{GNU}'s Not Unix) In some circumstances, it is conventional to print family names in all capitals. | | | In the Info output, the argument is printed as-is. In either format, if the second argument is present, it is printed in parentheses after the acronym. | | | - In TeX, an acronym (but not an abbreviation) is printed in a slightly smaller font. |
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http://www.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/info?(texinfo)acronym
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| | the game of the name |
| | Back to acronyms: bitmonki suggested game (GAME's Another Make Environment), and i told rms about it in an email discussing the convenience of a Guile make replacement. | | | Initially, we tried to come up with a (recursive) acronym: guibs (i forgot what's the acronym, but a guib is a kind of antelope), glue (GNU's Latest Update Environment), grue (Guile's Recursive Update Environment, rlb) or grum (Guile Replaces Ubiquitous Make). | | | Oh, and in case you're wondering, Conjure stands for "Conjure's Other Name's Juggler Using Recursive Evaluations". |
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http://home.gna.org/conjure/WhatsInAname.html
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| | recursive acronym - FOLDOC Definition |
| | A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. | | | More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". | | | If you have problems or comments con cerning our WWW service, please send e-mail to the following address: webmaster@NightFlight.com. |
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http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc-bin/foldoc.cgi?recursive+acronym
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| | OSNews.com |
| | Lacking permission from the Debian project to call itself Debian anything, the Debian Common Core Alliance has agreed to change its name to the recursive DCC Alliance. | | | another acronym that's useless in a search engine. | | | I'm going to start the Debian Common Horde. |
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http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12328
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| | Problem C: GNU = GNU'sNotUnix |
| | Let us define GNU, the recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix with the following recursive rules: | | | In each step we apply all the rules simultaneously. | | | The rules can be immediately recursive, recursive in a cycle or not recursive at all. |
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http://acm.uva.es/p/v106/10625.html
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| | Dan's Online Diary |
| | Another shining example of a recursive acronym is GNU, which is an acronym for GNU's Not Unix. | | | But it got rehashed and extensified, and the new developers of PHP thought that the term 'personal' was too restrictive. | | | When PHP was first developed, it was an acronym for Personal Home Page tools. |
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http://dansdiary.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_dansdiary_archive.html
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| | The Volokh Conspiracy - Acronym Stacking |
| | David Price sent me a good example of a stacked acronym, which is also an example of an almost-recursive acronym. | | | And now that we've wandered back onto the subject of recursive acronyms, Jonathan Ichikawa gave another example in a comment: A Dilbert cartoon in which Dilbert and Wally talked about "The TTP Project." This is another example that's interesting for two reasons. | | | The other is that it's a redundantly expanded acronym which is redundantly expanded on both ends. |
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http://volokh.com/posts/1088218401.shtml
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Apronym |
| | Apronyms are a form of word play and may be created for serious purposes or for amusement. | | | Most apronyms are backronyms (reverse or back-formed acronyms) in the sense that they are created from a existing word (or a homophone for one). | | | An apronym is an acronym or backronym which is also a real word - or a homophone for a real word - meaning something relevant to the expanded term it stands for. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/A/AP/APR/Apronym
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| | Applied Systems Programming |
| | Everyone makes a big deal about how clever this name is, calling it a recursive acronym (because the PHP abbreviation is formed from the first letters of the three words: PHP, Hypertext, and Preprocessor and the abbreviation is also the first word). | | | An acronym is a pronounceable abbreviation (like POT, short for POrtable Toilet) made from initial sequences of words in the phrase being abbreviated. | | | An initialism is an abbreviation that is vocalized by speaking each of the letters in sequence (like HTML). |
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http://www.cs.uakron.edu/~margush/307_2003/12_PHP.htm
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| | Lesson 1 :: Introduction to Variables |
| | PHP is currently the most powerful programming language for producing dynamic web sites, it was designed to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. | | | If you're new to web development, PHP is probably just one of hundreds of acronym's you see floating around the web, but is the only acronym you need to build a cutting-edge dynamic Web site. | | | You can also assign multiple variables the same value at the same time. |
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http://www.thephpguy.com/tutorials/beginners/Lesson1-Variables_and_echo.php
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| | goats: Ring of Fire forum: Scientology jokes |
| | On a not-scientology-related-at-all note, I was once involved on a project with one of them fancy-pants recursive acronym names. | | | Yes, not only was it a recursive acronym, but it was also a recursive acronym lie. | | | I was always a fan of the TTP project, myself, if we're going for recursive acronyms. |
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http://www.goats.com/forums/flame/1001.html
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