Re: Re: FAQ

Johnson, Kirk schrieb am Mittwoch, 1. August 2001, 17:55:03: >> Does anyone know what PHP stands for? PHP =>> People Hate Perl. > No, that's just a joke, no flames please :) > PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Which does not explain the php - stands for Personal Home Page, IIRC - there is an interview with Rasmus where he tells the whole story. Doesn't sound that good these days, but this is where it comes from: he invented it for personal use on his own homepage, to find out who looks at his resume. And I think it is really cute and significant for the whole open source movement - just like Apache comes from "a patchy" server. He continues that people approached him to get the code, whence they found bugs he didn't run across and had ideays he'd never have. So here it goes... -- Herzlich Werner Stuerenburg _________________________________________________ ISIS Verlag, Teut 3, D-32683 Barntrup-Alverdissen Tel 0(049) 5224-997 407 · Fax 0(049) 5224-997 409 http://pferdezeitung.de