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For instance, in the '60s and '70s there were many TECO text editors, more or less similar; typically each system would have a TECO and it would be called something-or-other-TECO. But one clever hacker called his program TINT, for "TINT Is Not TECO" -- the first recursive acronym. And we thought that was very funny. So after I developed the first Emacs extensible text editor in 1975, there were many imitations, and some were called this-or-that-Emacs. But one was called FINE for "FINE Is Not Emacs" and there was SINE for "SINE Is Not Emacs", and EINE for "EINE Is Not Emacs", and MINCE for "MINCE Is Not Complete Emacs." Then EINE was mostly rewritten, and version two was called ZWEI for "ZWEI Was EINE Initially." [Laughter]