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A recursive acronym — is a humorous or creative type of acronym in which the first letter stands for or links to the acronym itself. That is, the acronym itself is used in deciphering the acronym. It is a word game often used in the field of programming, technology or hacker culture.
Examples
- GNU <TAG1> GNU's Not Unix (ie "GNU — is not Unix", but the abbreviation itself contains itself: GNU).
- PHP <TAG1> PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor The first letter means "PHP", that is, the name is included in itself.
- YAML <TAG1> YAML Ain't Markup Language A recursive construction is also used here: YAML — is not a markup language (but the word YAML itself is used in decryption).
Why do they do that?
- Humor <TAG1> is a technical joke, a kind of intelligence game.
- Identity <TAG1> recursive acronyms often become a symbol of project creativity.
- Tradition <TAG1> many famous projects in the open source world use similar names.
This is an example of how even in the strict world of programming there is room for self-irony and a creative approach to titles.
I haven't found a consistent value for a recursive acronym for AI (AI is very popular at the moment, so it won't be bad as an example). So I'll try to invent something:
AI <TAG1> AI Inside.Such a thing, but there was no more imagination ^_^
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