On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:10 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:56 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote: > > maybe i'm being a word snob but the correct way to state this is > > > > rpm and gnu are recursive acronymns.. > > > > hell i prolly didn't even spell that right :-) > > > > <grin> Nope. > > Acronyms has no "n" in it. Well, actually it has one "n" in it... ;-) > Otherwise, you are correct in that > "recursive" is a better word choice than "self-referencing", which > itself may or may not be correct... I cannot be certain right now. Another example of a recursive acronym is PHP, which stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
