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When I younger I thought "funny" acronyms like Gnu is Not Unix or ALOHA were because of computer nerd culture, but now I learned that it's just cracker culture
I will kind of go to bat for the recursive acronym. I like Gnu is Not Unix. I think there were a couple others, I feel like there was a funny non-official emacs one that I liked, but I don't remember it, so who knows, really
The issue with that one is that it's just too boring. Hypertext Preprocessor? Boo, who cares, come up with a fun one or get out of here. You know?
It used to be "Personal Home Page" before Mr.
mysql_real_escape_string( $str )himself decided to change it to a recursive backronymYeah, that's definitely better than the recursive backronym. It's still not good though! Apparently the PHP people just aren't great at naming their language, many such cases!
The language, the standard library functions, the fucking core platform version numbering system, and so on and so forth
It's like I always tell the junior devs -- there are only two hard things about programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
GNU is one of the tamer ones I'll admit, but my point still stands
Oh yeah, you're absolutely right, except for the occasional recursive acronym, on which I will fight you
For the last time, Wine is Not an Emulator
(I also like that one, I think it's downright helpful for a wine noobie to be reminded that wine doesn't emulate)
I might have cringe taste in names
I like this one because I thought it was Win(dows) E(mulator) at first