Wait till you learn what the G in GNU stands for
PHP²
The S stands for secure.
The the “s” in IoT
you won’t believe what the W stands for in WINE.
There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
My favorite is GNU Hurd, a mutually recursive acronym!
_ Nested_ recursive acronyms, even!
This inspired the two MIT Lisp Machineeditors called EINE (“EINE Is Not Emacs”, German for one) and ZWEI(“ZWEI Was EINE Initially”, German for two)
There’s a joke in here about them essentially covering up the old name and PHP’s reputation but I don’t feel like starting a sledge thread over PHP when JavaScript is right there lol.
YAML does this too. YAML Ain’t Markup Language.
WINE Is Not an Emulator
Huh. For some reason i thought it was Yet Another Markup Language. But yours is more on brand.
You’re thinking of YACC.
That was the original meaning. It got changed at some point.
oh interesting, as that’s what PHP did too. Originally it was just a set of shell scripts for creating “Personal Home Pages” and it gradually grew into the beautiful swan it is today <3
Same for the mp3 encoder :
Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain’t an Mp3 Encoder.
GNU does it a lot, for some reason that lot find it hugely entertaining
Do they still do it? Thought it was the meme/fad of the 80s/90s.
Full name is Personal Home Page: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Why does it sounds like videogame title.
personal
looks in
millions of businesses
Yes, things change, hence the hindsight redefinition of what PHP stands for.
Businesses have feelings too, apparently
phphp
GNU stands for GNU’s Not Unix.
I thought it stood for PCP.
But what does the P in that one stand for?
Preprocessor
Penis
I see that, too, are a card carrying member of the PEN15 club.
It’s exploits all the way down.
You should look up “Wine” (the window emulator for Linux)
the window emulator
But Wine is not an emulator
Funny how “Wine Is Not an Emulator” spells out Wine, don’t you think?
Or maybe it could be Wine Is aN Emulator…
Really makes you think…
^^^/s
