Re: What "PHP" Stands For....
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:20:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What "PHP" Stands For.... | ||
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> > Anyway, I only know what I read - I got to the scene to late to actually
> > know this stuff first hand... hope this helps... and if someone who
really
> > was on the scene back then cares to comment/correct me, please do ;)
>
> I sort of do. ;)
LOL :-)
> tools for personal home pages, that meaning was also dropped. A name vote
> ensued and all the proposed names sucked, so this PHP: Hypertext
> Preprocessor name was deemed to suck the least. So that's where we are.
Last time I checked, about six months ago?, if you dug around on
http://php.net you could still find the old survey and the various
suggestions that sucked worse than PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Students of history may wish to dig for that and archive it somewhere.
Students of profanity, ditto :-)
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