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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
