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#the combination of two WFF's with a binary operator
 
#the combination of two WFF's with a binary operator
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The LISP programming language uses a recursive data structure.
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The LISP programming language uses a recursive data structure. Most programming languages permit recursion by allowing the programmer call a function within itself. Some have no syntax for making looping code other than by recursion. (''for its use in computer science see main article on [[recursion]]'')
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A fascination with recursive definitions in the software development community led to the invention of several recursive acronyms:
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A fascination with recursive definitions in the software development community ([[free software]] in particular) led to the invention of several recursive acronyms:
 
*[[PHP]] (originally Personal Home Page) => PHP Hypertext Pre-processor
 
*[[PHP]] (originally Personal Home Page) => PHP Hypertext Pre-processor
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*[[GNU]] (GNU's Not Unix)
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*[[WINE]] (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
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*YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)
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==See also==
 
==See also==
    
*[[Fractal]]
 
*[[Fractal]]
[[category:logic]]
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*[[Recursion]] (computer science)
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[[Category:Logic]]
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