| recursive acronym A hackish (and especially ) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called ("EINE Is Not ") and ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a compiler called (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name , which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". See also . [] (1995-04-28) |
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