Re: What does PHP stand for?
| From: | Rob Hardowa | Date: | Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:14:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: What does PHP stand for? | ||
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I believe that it was called Personal Home Page during version 2, and if I'm
not mistaken, there was a contest (sorta) around the time 3 was released to
find a new name.
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 03:08 pm, you wrote:
> On Mar 28 Ago 2001 19:52, John Meyer wrote:
> > At 05:15 PM 8/28/01 +0228, you wrote:
> > >It's actually a recursive acronym, like GNU:
> > >
> > > From the manual:
> > >
> > >"PHP, which stands for 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', is an
> > > HTML-embedded scripting language."
> > >
> > >J
> >
> > Am I making things up, or Did it stand for Perl Hypertext Preprocessor at
> > one time?
>
> I always thought it meant Personal Home Page (isn't this right?)
>
> Saludos.... :-)
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