Recursive Acronyms

It is believed that only 5 percent of people think recursively, the rest 95 percent have iterative thinking. I am glad I am among the unique 5 percent ones . I have always been a recursive thinker. I think and think until I cannot think anymore. I have been thinking for the past three days for drafting an attractive poster for the Adobe Flex Workshop, and today I met rookshop and ID, and made them think about it. I am definitely a recursive thinker, no wonder I am so slow at thinking and I often forget what I was my original thought process, and my brains often crashe like Windows. (for the starters, recursion consumes a LOT of memory)

I have loved Linux and especially Ubuntu also because they have really cool recursive acronyms. ( A couple of hours ago, RDP had chuckled at the very idea of recursive acronyms while the know-it-all-chap ID sat smiling. RDP also happens to be the technical guy of the Board.)Anyway, Two of the most common ones are :

GNU : GNU is Not Unix

WINE :Wine Is Not Emulator

However the distinction of being the first recursive acronym goes to JINI , which stands for Jini Is Not Initials. Whats more, JINI never stood for anything in the first place !

Some companies have also chosen recursive acronyms for their name :

VISA : Visa International Service Association

OIL : Oil India Limited

Isn’t the entire idea fascinating?

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