Re: Redefining the acronym for PHP
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Fri, 13 Mar 2020 20:07:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Redefining the acronym for PHP | ||
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PerHaPs ;-)
On March 13, 2020 7:57:20 PM UTC, Aziz Saleh <azizsaleh@gmail.com> wrote:
>PHP will always stand for "Personal Home Page"!
>
>On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:27 PM Yuriy Peskov <yuriy.peskov@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Is that a joke?
>> On 13.03.2020 21:25, Jeremy O'Connor wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> The recursive acronym for the name PHP is problematic, in terms of
>logic
>> and finiteness. It can never be written out in full, in a finite time
>nor
>> in a finite manner. For example to expand it, one would end up with
>an
>> infinte sequence as follows:
>>
>>
>>
>> PHP, PHP Hypertext Processor, PHP Hypertext Processor Hypertext
>> Processor, PHP Hypertext Processor Hypertext Processor Hypertext
>Processor,
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> How would the community feel about redefining the acronym for PHP? My
>> personal proposal for the name PHP is: "Powerful Hypertext
>Processor".
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jeremy O'Connor
>>
>>
Thanks,
Ash