Re: What "PHP" Stands For....

That is what I have heard as well, "Personal Home page". It has also been come to be known as "People hate perl". And of course the (AFAIK) official "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "LINUX is obsolete" -- Andy Tanenbaum, January 29th, 1992 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.JEEP-FOR-SALE.com/ -- I need a buyer Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Brian White wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:20:49 +1100 > From: Brian White <bwhite@steptwo.com.au> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] What "PHP" Stands For.... > > > From the preface of the manual: > > 'PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" ...' > > I frankly don't beleive that "PHP" started life as a recursively > defined acronym - I remember reading somewhere that it stood for > "Personal Home Page" which makes more sense to me. > > Anybody know the truth? > > Regs > > Brian White > ------------------------- > Brian White > Step Two Designs Pty Ltd - SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy > > http://www.steptwo.com.au/ > bwhite@steptwo.com.au > > > -- > 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 > >