Turtley
Self referential.
Turtley derives from the phrase "Turtles all the way down", a cosmological reference to an infinite regression belief about the nature of the universe.
Fibonacci sequences are turtley.
On my previous project, which was pro bono work, for this fantastic company. The word "turtley" came out of a discussion about the "Turtles all the way down" phrase. It turned out to be both fun and useful and I highly recommend referring to things that are turtles all the way down as being turtley. There are so many turtles in software! Examples: A Scheme interpreter written in Scheme, The debian linux installer which boots a linux kernel to install linux, the smalltalk language is extremely turtley, many interesting data structures are turtley, even your filesystem.
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"Turtley" just added to the Urban Dictionary
(www.urbandictionary.com)
I am totally going to start using this. Awesome.
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