Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition

Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by zhemao on Monday May 06, 2013 @06:08PM (#5665099)

Oh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive algorithm?

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by kostya-kow on Monday May 06, 2013 @07:02PM (#5665327)

It would've been mutually recursive if Lisp (language) stood for something else which referenced Lisp (contest). But it doesn't, so you probably discovered a new type of recursive acronyms.

Hurd is an example of mutually recursive acronym:

"The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons", and "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by ohyes on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @07:43AM (#5667560)

A recursive acronym with a shift/reduce conflict.

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by pavelludiq on Monday May 06, 2013 @07:47PM (#5665534)

There is a book called Lisp in Small pieces, which I assume inspired the name, also a lisp tutorial called "Lisp in small parts": http://lisp.plasticki.com/ also probably inspired by the book title.

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Re:Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition by neutronicus on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @08:06AM (#5667643)

A recursive acronym with a termination condition.

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