25 Years of Perl

[Uri Guttman]

On 11/20/2012 04:17 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote:
> On 11/20/12 1:10 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>> On 20/11/12 20:42, DAVID HODGKINSON wrote:
>>>
>>> As did PHP. And the rest is history.
>>>
>>
>> Speaking of which, is it just a folk memory that suggests that the first
>> 'P' in PHP once stood for "perl"?
>
> I thought, for the longest time, that "PHP" had originally been an 
> acronym for "Perl Hypertext Pages". But people deny that, so I can't 
> be sure.
>
i recall it was perl home pages. and it definitely was written in perl 
in the earliest versions. note how much of the syntax and other stuff 
was stolen from perl and then ruined beyond all recognition.

uri