Re: A peripheral question about PHP

Thank you. My question was not a intended as a matter for anyone's annoyance. I am just in general interested in words and their structure. I thought that perhaps there is a history to the PHP, but with a newly acquired knowledge of "backronims", PHP may be clearer now. But. Wickipedia actually states: "A number of recursive acronyms are backronyms, which used to expand to a different string but whose expansion changed once the acronym was well-known, for one reason or another, to one which included the acronym itself. This includes at least PHP and RPM." Thus, according to that site, PHP used to mean something different. And. PHP may have meant something originally. Like PreHypertext Processor or some other actonym designating your particular version of hypertext processor. I don't want to take any more of your time with this question. Sincerely, Natalya. On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Gabor Hojtsy wrote > > Thank you. > > > > that's right, I've done that. And what I read is "recursive acronym for > > PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". So PHP = Pre (?) Hypertest Processor? > > Please inform yourself on what a recursive acronym is: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym > > Regards, > Gabor Hojtsy >