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Old 11-11-2001, 10:44 AM  
TheFLY
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Originally posted by Osholio:
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
PHP stands for "Personal Home Page" -- the guy originally coded it to see how many people were accessing his resume.

Or so the story goes -- maybe he was really an adult webmaster ;)



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