Re: PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:21:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:48, Richard Davey wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2006, at 19:59, Jay Blanchard wrote:
>
> > In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what
> > PHP
> > stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming
> > language you
> > ever saw.
>
> Not disagreeing, just wondering if people here see PHP as a
> programming language, or a scripting language? Just curious what the
> general consensus is, as someone decided to challenge me over it
> recently and I was left in two minds over it.
It is both. You programmatically define scripts thus programming
languages are a superset of scripting languages.
Cheers,
Rob.
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