On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, David Combs wrote: >I have no idea what this php is -- some kind of scripting lang >that's getting popular. It looks to me like it's the holy grail I've been looking for (or at least close to it) -- a scripting language with the POWER of Perl, but largely the syntax of C. I really think one of the major reasons I haven't done this web page idea I've had for several years (people keep coming closer to implementing it, but nobody's gotten all the way there) is because I just can't get "into" Perl. I now understand why some people just dislike the look of C. Perl seems to me that, an order of magnitude worse. I love the power, the lack of having to allocate memory, but there are just "weird variables" and such that just get to me for some reason. >In the process of printing some stuff about it, I looked at >the faq, and saw something about it working fine for lynx. I think I saw the same thing you did. I didn't read the whole thing in depth, but they were talking about the _output_ of a PHP script working on IE and Lynx, but not on Netscape. So it's a backend scripting engine that people use to do the same kinds of things they do in Perl (and other languages) -- massage data, effectively printf() dynamic pages to people, and so on.
