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[–] 93 points 4 days ago (1 child)
  • [–] 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    you won't believe what the W stands for in WINE.

    There recursive acronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

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  • [–] 43 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Full name is Personal Home Page: Hypertext Preprocessor.

    Why does it sounds like videogame title.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    GNU does it a lot, for some reason that lot find it hugely entertaining

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    YAML does this too. YAML Ain't Markup Language.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Huh. For some reason i thought it was Yet Another Markup Language. But yours is more on brand.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 days ago

    GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.

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  • Wait till you learn what the G in GNU stands for

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    I thought it stood for PCP.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    But what does the P in that one stand for?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    It's exploits all the way down.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    There's a joke in here about them essentially covering up the old name and PHP's reputation but I don't feel like starting a sledge thread over PHP when JavaScript is right there lol.

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    [–] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    You should look up "Wine" (the window emulator for Linux)

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  • [–] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    the window emulator

    But Wine is not an emulator

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