Re: PHP stand for...

Wow, thanks for wasting the 2 minutes of my time it took me to read that. p v wrote:

Anyone who cares .... I have a discrepancy with the PHP initialism meaning. You state that it stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, but I have read in early books about PHP that is stands for Personal Home Page. I have even read an interview with Rasmus Lerdorf who stated it was such. Why would you change it or pretend that PHP stands for something else? I enjoy that you also stated on the php.net site that it is a recursive acronym. In fact the definition of that is Recursive Acronym----------------------------------- A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially"). More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support". ------------------------------------------------ PHP is neither humorous nor does it fall under a real dictionaries definition…in short nice try. Also you classify PHP as an acronym when in fact it isn't. It should be classified as initialism. See definition below. Initialism. ------------------------------------- From Dictionary.com An abbreviation consisting of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase (for example, IRS for Internal Revenue Service), syllables or components of a word (TNT for trinitrotoluene), or a combination of words and syllables (ESP for extrasensory perception) and pronounced by spelling out the letters one by one rather than as a solid word. ------------------------------------------------ I enjoy that such liberties have been taken with the real meaning of PHP. I guess if you say it long enough people will actually believe you. Sincerely, rmiwiw (which is an initialism) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/