Re: A question for the newbies

[Mark Galbreath]

I've worked with PHP since 4.2 and I think its a nice language.   For somebody else.  I bloody well hate it.   Mark >>> Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17-Feb-06 18:02:47 PM >>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:54:23 -0600 "will trillich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as for php, it's a nice language, in no small part due to its grammar > being so perl-like. my theory is: php arose because pete (isn't that > the first P in PHP? pete's home page?) wanted a module built in to > apache that would do some variable-swapping and iterating -- since > mod_perl wasn't available at the time, php was born.   Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember that the   first couple of versions of PHP were written in mod_perl.  Then   again I could be suffering from sleep deprivation! :) ---------------------------------    Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>    http://www.wiles.org ---------------------------------