That's only if you arbitrarily and inconsistently limit your recursion depth. 😀

With a fixed recursion limit of 2, you get:

GNU’s Not UNIX's Not Uniplexed Information and Computing Service Image Manipulation Program

@clacke GIMP, GNU, UNIX are all acronyms and they are the only acronyms in side the name of GIMP (that I can see) so it feels fully consistent to me to unpack them all.

If you unpack them all and don't limit your recursion, the G will never return.

You unpacked GNU, and then within GNU you only unpacked UNIX and not GNU. That's what I got hung up on. But I take back the idea that your limit was arbitrary and inconsistent. It actually follows the rule "expand everything until we reach a loop". So we're good. 😀

@clacke hmm I think I follow what your saying but cant think of a different way to unpack the name cause indeed there are multiple levels of recession. you cant include GIMP in the unpacked version but you sort of have to include GNU cause otherwise there would be no G in at all. and UNIX isnt recursive so you can unpack it fully.