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 ---------------------------------
