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1. The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) |
recursive acronym
n.
A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms/
abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms/
abbreviations. The original of the breed may have been TINT (?TINT Is Not
TECO?). The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE (?EINE Is Not
EMACS?) and ZWEI (?ZWEI Was EINE Initially?). More recently, there is a
Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU
(q.v., sense 1) stands for ?GNU's Not Unix!? ? and a company with the name
Cygnus, which expands to ?Cygnus, Your GNU Support? (though Cygnus people
say this is a backronym). The GNU recursive acronym may have been
patterned on XINU, ?XINU Is Not Unix? ? a particularly nice example because
it is a mirror image, a backronym, and a recursive acronym. See also mung
, EMACS.
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2. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
recursive acronym
A hackish (and especially MIT) 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 ("EINE Is Not
Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). 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".
See also mung.
[Jargon File]
(1995-04-28)
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