RE: [PHP] What means PHP ? ;-)

It's so funny that just 24 ours ago Martin asked that innocent yet so amazingly curious question: what is PHP.. and we, gurus, haven't stopped to talk about it yet... kewl, love this mailing list... -----Original Message----- From: Martin [mailto:martin@thomatechnik.de] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 6:28 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] What means PHP ? ;-) Hello ! I tell a lot of people that php is great and good and fast and effizent to make a web-site. All that stuff. The next question I always get is: "Okay, what does 'PHP' mean exactly ?". Even "non-computer-people" know that HTML means "HyperText Markup Language". But what the hell does PHP mean ? ;-) The manual (http://www.php.net/manual/preface.php) says: PHP stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" which seems a bit stupid, since "Hypertext Preprocessor" doesn't start with a P ;-) Or is it a kind of a (funny ? nonsense ? intelligent ?) rekursion that PHP really stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" ? A book I got through my fingers says: PHP means "Personal Home Page", which sounds good, too. A lot of people try to make something like "Pretty Hypertext Preprocessor" or something like that. So.... what should I tell people who ask me ? ;-)) Martin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net