: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 1:53 AM
To: jeremy brand
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Subject: Re: [PHP] What "PHP" Stands For
> That is what I have heard as well, "Personal Home page".
>
> It has also been come to
> > Anyway, I only know what I read - I got to the scene to late to actually
> > know this stuff first hand... hope this helps... and if someone who
really
> > was on the scene back then cares to comment/correct me, please do ;)
>
> I sort of do. ;)
LOL :-)
> tools for personal home pages, that
The one that is easiest to explain to clients is
'Professional Hypertext Preprocessor'
They don't get confused with the recursiveness of
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, and it has the word "professional" in it. The
recursiveness, like GNU meaning 'GNU's Not Unix' (or so I've heard) would
drive them
At 10:27 PM 1/22/2001, Fraser MacKenzie wrote:
i like people hate perl :-)
~kurth
>Acthually, it stands for Personal Home Page
>
>Frasre
>
>On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Alexander Wagner wrote:
>
> > Brian White wrote:
> > > 'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...'
> > >
> > > I
Acthually, it stands for Personal Home Page
Frasre
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Alexander Wagner wrote:
> Brian White wrote:
> > 'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...'
> >
> > I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively
> > defined acronym - I remember re
Cheers,
Maxim Maletsky
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From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:50 AM
To: Toby Butzon
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Subject: Re: [PHP] What "PHP" Stands For
> That's the truth. PHP started out as a set
> > It has also been come to be known as "People hate perl".
>
> Hey now. I'll deny to my grave I ever said that in public. ;)
I never claimed you said it. ;) I will deny that I ever heard it
from you. :)
Jeremy
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> That is what I have heard as well, "Personal Home page".
>
> It has also been come to be known as "People hate perl".
Hey now. I'll deny to my grave I ever said that in public. ;)
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> That's the truth. PHP started out as a set of "Personal Home Page tools"
> (1st version), then PHP/FI (PHP + form interpretter [or something similar -
> I'm not sure 'form interpretter' is completely correct, but that was
> basically the functionality of the FI portion])... anyway, then sometime
Ok - thanks. That has satisfied my curiosity
At 03:32 PM 1/22/01 -0800, jeremy brand wrote:
>It has also been come to be known as "People hate perl".
... and tickled the old sense of humour.
Regs
Brian
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someone who really
was on the scene back then cares to comment/correct me, please do ;)
--Toby
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Brian White wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:20:49 +1100
> From: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Brian White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 10:20 AM
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> From the preface of the manual:
>
>
Brian White wrote:
> 'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...'
>
> I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively
> defined acronym - I remember reading somewhere that it stood for
> "Personal Home Page" which makes more sense to me.
>
> Anybody know the truth
From the preface of the manual:
'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...'
I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively
defined acronym - I remember reading somewhere that it stood for
"Personal Home Page" which makes more sense to me.
Anybody know the t
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