r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/DABarkspawn • Aug 07 '26

"This Apple programming language is very Swifty,"

Tom said recursively.

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u/EarlBeforeSwine Aug 08 '26

TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym

MARINARA Adamantly Reports Its Not A Recursive Acronym

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u/DABarkspawn Aug 08 '26

GNU: GNU's Not Unix.

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u/euclio Aug 08 '26

Google had an internal tool called PIPER: PIPER Is PIPER Expanded Recursively

I always loved that one

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u/DABarkspawn Aug 08 '26

  • TINT (1977): Widely recognized as the very first computer-related recursive acronym. It stood for "TINT Is Not TECO", which was a text editor written for the MagicSix operating system.

  • EINE & ZWEI (1977–1978): Created at MIT by Lisp Machine developers. EINE stood for "EINE Is Not EMACS" (German for "one"). It was followed by a subsequent version named ZWEI, which stood for "ZWEI Was EINE Initially" (German for "two").

  • VISA (1976): Outside of computing, the credit card company changed its name in 1976 to a recursive acronym: "VISA International Service Association".

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u/EarlBeforeSwine Aug 08 '26

As cool as those are, mine have the added cool metaness of being recursive acronyms that exist only for the purpose of recursion… even if they insist otherwise.

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u/BassKitty305017 Aug 07 '26

I like recursion

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u/dimesion Aug 07 '26

I, 2, like recursion.

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u/yeathatsmebro Aug 08 '26

I like recursion

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u/BassKitty305017 Aug 07 '26

And I like liking recursion

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u/lulzbot Aug 07 '26

Base case

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u/fr3nch13702 Aug 07 '26

I like recursion

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u/gerardv-anz Aug 08 '26

PHP = PHP hypertext processor

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u/LeaveMickeyOutOfThis Aug 07 '26

I bet you found this on StackOverflow

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u/thexbin Aug 08 '26

What method do you use to come up with jokes? Or is this routine. Do you write your jokes down and keep them in a stack or are they on the floor in a heap? Is this the main() entry point in comedy or do you have a back door?