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patrikG
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by patrikG » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:20 am
Roja wrote: patrikG wrote: GIF can't be open source, because the name contains no recursion. "GIF Interchange Format" doesn't quite hit it
Linux and PHP both provide exceptions disproving that rule.
Linux, yes, PHP? PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
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by Roja » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:30 am
patrikG wrote: Roja wrote: patrikG wrote: GIF can't be open source, because the name contains no recursion. "GIF Interchange Format" doesn't quite hit it
Linux and PHP both provide exceptions disproving that rule.
Linux, yes, PHP? PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
Originally, Personal Home Page tools. They embraced the recursion after it was "cool". Sorry, no points.
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by patrikG » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:38 am
Roja wrote: patrikG wrote: Roja wrote:
Linux and PHP both provide exceptions disproving that rule.
Linux, yes, PHP? PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
Originally, Personal Home Page tools. They embraced the recursion after it was "cool". Sorry, no points.
Yeah, but that was until what, version 3 or so. It's been PHP Hypertext Preprocessor for years now. We can happily split the points.
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by Grim... » Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:59 am
Yes, PHP did stand for Personal Home Pages[/i], but it doesn't any more, so there's no way Roja gets any points - PHP is a recursive acronym.
Let's not argue about it though, that would be like (say) debating the spelling of 'GIF'.
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by Roja » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:33 am
Grim... wrote: Let's not argue about it though, that would be like (say) debating the spelling of 'GIF'.
What kind of
idiots would argue about something lik.. Oh. heh. I guess thats me.
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by Burrito » Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:44 am
easy fellas.....easy.
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by patrikG » Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:00 am
Roja wrote: Grim... wrote: Let's not argue about it though, that would be like (say) debating the spelling of 'GIF'.
What kind of
idiots would argue about something lik.. Oh. heh. I guess thats me.
That makes two of us then
Oh, and that's two with each half a point, btw.
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by Grim... » Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:03 am
Don't leave me out.