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| − | The LISP programming language uses a recursive data structure. | + | 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]]'') |
| − | A fascination with recursive definitions in the software development community led to the invention of several recursive acronyms: | + | 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 | ||
| − | *[[GNU]] | + | *[[GNU]] (GNU's Not Unix) |
| + | *[[WINE]] (Wine Is Not an Emulator) | ||
| + | *YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) | ||
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*[[Fractal]] | *[[Fractal]] | ||
| + | *[[Recursion]] (computer science) | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:15, July 13, 2016
Recursiveness is the quality of being defined in terms which include the whole. For example, in symbolic logic a well-formed formula (WFF) can be either:
- a predicate
- the negation of a WFF
- the combination of two WFF's with a binary operator
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)
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
- GNU (GNU's Not Unix)
- WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
- YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language)