Re: Redefining the acronym for PHP
| From: | Larry Martell | Date: | Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:19:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Redefining the acronym for PHP | ||
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I always thought it was Programmers Hate PHP.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 1:17 PM Jeremy O'Connor
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> Or how about: “Performing Hypertext Preprocessor” ?
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> p.s. Sorry, I got the third word wrong in my initial post. My initial suggestion should have
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> Jeremy O’Connor
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> From: George Langley <george.langley@shaw.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, 14 March 2020 07:48
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: Redefining the acronym for PHP
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> Wrong day. Today is Friday the 13th, NOT April 1st!
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> George
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> On Mar 13, 2020, at 1:25 PM, Jeremy O'Connor <jeremyoconnor@telkomsa.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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:
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> PHP, PHP Hypertext Processor, PHP Hypertext Processor Hypertext Processor, PHP Hypertext
> Processor Hypertext Processor Hypertext Processor, ...
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> How would the community feel about redefining the acronym for PHP? My personal proposal for the
> name PHP is: "Powerful Hypertext Processor".
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> Jeremy O'Connor
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