Some cool recursive acronyms !

February 25th, 2008 by Vineet ! 272 views

Just came across these acronyms … mostly names of open source softwares…but there’s something special in them … they are recursive !!! some famous recursive acronyms are

1. GNU - GNU is Not Unix. (Software collection)

2. Cygnus - Cygnus Your GNU Support. ( A Software company)

3. EINE - EINE Is Not EMACS. (A text editor)

4. ZWEI - ZWEI Was EINE Initially. (Another text editor)

5. LIAR - LIAR Imitates Apply Recursively. (A scheme compiler)

6. WINE - WINE Is Not Emulator. (A windows emulator(like) for Linux)

7. EMACS - EMACS Makes A Computer Slow. (A famous text editor written by RMS).

8. XINU - XINU is not Unix.

9. PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. ( Server side web scripting language)

10. LAME - LAME Ain’t an MP3 Encoder.

One famous real world, non-technical example (We have all heard it but most of us don’t know it’s an acronym) is VISA.
VISA stands for VISA International Service Association.

I hope it was interesting.