Why are programmers so obsessed with recursive acronyms?

>AROS — AROS Research Operating System
>BIRD — BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
>cURL — Curl URL Request Library
>GNU — GNU's Not Unix
>JACK — JACK Audio Connection Kit
>LAME — LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
>Nano — Nano's Another editor
>PHP — PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
>PIP — PIP Installs Packages
>RPM — RPM Package Manage
>WINE — WINE Is Not an Emulator
>GNU HURD — Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons

What kind of humour is this? Are these the same people who think Monty Python and Hitchhiker's Guide is funny, or is that another caste of nerd?

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I also wonder this.
I believe the overt explanation is recursive programming, where you divide a task repeatedly and recurse through it until it is complete. But I feel there's some other pun that I just don't get.

It happened once and then people made new shit with the same naming scheme to pay homage

It's easier to make a nice acronym if you can make the first letter whatever you want.

Green
Is
My
Pepper

based

>GNU — GNU's Not Unix
But it is
>LAME — LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder
But it is
>WINE — WINE Is Not an Emulator
But it is

naming shit is hard, recursive names are easy and cool

Somekind nerdy ritual for new projects

You forgot Wine: Wine Is Not an Emulator