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Old 11-10-2001, 08:27 AM  
Osholio
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Quote:
Originally posted by Equinox:
Cough, PHP is an Apache module written in C, correct ? Would someone clearify this please ? Not that it really matters, but I am just curious.
PHP is written in C, I know this for a fact since I had to troll through the souce to pin down a bug in the Truetype Font support in the GD library (the bug was in GD, not PHP).

PHP has never stood for 'Perl Hypertext Preprocessor', at best it's a recursive acronym 'PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor', and doesn't really resemble Perl that much. Sure it has hashes (associative arrays) but just about every other function is available in a different way to Perl, for example regexes are performed via a function (either Posix or Perl style) and are not native to the language.

Perl makes an excellent scripting language, I use it a lot, but PHP is much more 'designed' for Web scripting.

In any case, real men code like this:

copy con program.exe




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