Re: A peripheral question about PHP

On Apr 6, 2004, at 11:17 PM, Natalya Bizunok wrote:

Thank you.

Hello Natalya!!

My question was not a intended as a matter for anyone's annoyance.

Nobody was annoyed by the question.. just some of these information are already available on the internet ;)

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.

Please see the PHP history infopage at http://www.php.net/history " PHP succeeds an older product, named PHP/FI. PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. As more functionality was required....."

I don't want to take any more of your time with this question. Sincerely, Natalya.

All the best! David Costa

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