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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:20 am
by patrikG
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 :)

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:30 am
by Roja
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.

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:38 am
by patrikG
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. :)

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:59 am
by Grim...
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'.

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:04 am
by timvw
I would find the following pretty normative: http://be.php.net/history

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:33 am
by Roja
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.

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:44 am
by Burrito
easy fellas.....easy.

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:00 am
by patrikG
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.

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:03 am
by Grim...
Don't leave me out.