On 20/11/12 21:17, Randy J. Ray wrote:
On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:

As did PHP. And the rest is history.


Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first
'P' in PHP once stood for "perl"?

I thought, for the longest time, that "PHP" had originally been an
acronym for "Perl Hypertext Pages". But people deny that, so I can't be
sure.


Wikipedia says: "PHP development began in 1994 when the programmer Rasmus Lerdorf initially created a set of Perl scripts he called "Personal Home Page Tools" to maintain his personal homepage. The scripts performed tasks such as displaying his résumé and recording his web-page traffic.[6][9][10] Lerdorf initially announced the release of PHP on the comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi Usenet discussion group on June 8, 1995.[11]".


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