Re: PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

On Thu, February 16, 2006 9:38 am, tedd wrote: > Gustavo said: > >>This great programming language is *much more* than a Hypertext >> Pre-Processor! > > It is? I've seen a fair number of PHP applications that had nothing to do with Hypertext... GD, libPDF, Ming, GTK... The list goes on. I was hoping for some inspiration from the ancient poll on php.net from the last time we went through this. Some of the suggestions were very... creative. :-) Personally, I don't really care what the acronym's words say. I know it's "not just for text anymore" Actually, I think most of the non-text Modules were there when we did the last acronym change. And certainly there were many heavy-duty applications whose "Hypertext" component was not the primary focus of PHP. So, fwiw, I'm voting -1 on the re-invention of PHP as an acronym. I could be swayed by a REALLY good acronym that expressed what I really thought PHP was all about... But I defy anybody to fit that all into 3 words that come out to PHP. We'd have to change PHP to: RCLTDHIPFGAAOCS which of course stands for: Really Cool Language That Does HTML, Images, PDFs, Flash, GTK, Applications, And Other Cool Stuff. :-) Damn. I missed all the cool sockets/soap/streams stuff. Sorry. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm