Yep, PHP is turning 30 this year! Wondering if "PHP is still relevant?" Ever since we have been hearing that PHP is dead. It was “dead” 10 years ago, 5 years ago, and “is dead” today. But somehow - it isn’t. Anyway... happy birthday!
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And I still don’t know what the first P stands for.
If you go by the initial acronym, it means personal iirc
stands for
not: stood for
The P in PHP stands for PHP.
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor.
Okay, that makes sense.
But what does the first P there stand for?
Oh sorry, that P actually stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”.
Thank you for clearing that up.
But do you happen to know what the first P there stands for?
Personal Home Page, so the whole thing written out is:
Personal Home Page Hypertext Preprocessor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
"Recursive Backronym"