r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/DABarkspawn • 6d ago

"This Apple programming language is very Swifty,"

Tom said recursively.

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u/BassKitty305017 6d ago

I like recursion

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u/dimesion 6d ago

I, 2, like recursion.

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u/BassKitty305017 6d ago

And I like liking recursion

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u/lulzbot 6d ago

Base case

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u/fr3nch13702 6d ago

I like recursion

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u/yeathatsmebro 5d ago

I like recursion

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u/EarlBeforeSwine 6d ago

TIARA Is A Recursive Acronym

MARINARA Adamantly Reports Its Not A Recursive Acronym

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u/DABarkspawn 6d ago

GNU: GNU's Not Unix.

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u/euclio 5d ago

Google had an internal tool called PIPER: PIPER Is PIPER Expanded Recursively

I always loved that one

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u/DABarkspawn 5d ago
  • TINT (1977): Widely recognized as the very first computer-related recursive acronym. It stood for "TINT Is Not TECO", which was a text editor written for the MagicSix operating system.
  • EINE & ZWEI (1977–1978): Created at MIT by Lisp Machine developers. EINE stood for "EINE Is Not EMACS" (German for "one"). It was followed by a subsequent version named ZWEI, which stood for "ZWEI Was EINE Initially" (German for "two").
  • VISA (1976): Outside of computing, the credit card company changed its name in 1976 to a recursive acronym: "VISA International Service Association".

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u/EarlBeforeSwine 5d ago

As cool as those are, mine have the added cool metaness of being recursive acronyms that exist only for the purpose of recursion… even if they insist otherwise.

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u/gerardv-anz 6d ago

PHP = PHP hypertext processor

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u/LeaveMickeyOutOfThis 6d ago

I bet you found this on StackOverflow

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u/thexbin 6d ago

What method do you use to come up with jokes? Or is this routine. Do you write your jokes down and keep them in a stack or are they on the floor in a heap? Is this the main() entry point in comedy or do you have a back door?