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Lollerskates

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:34 PM (#1)

PHP Self-describing name

If PHP means PHP: Hypertext Preprocesser...

If PHP means PHP: Hypertext Preprocesser, does that mean PHP: Hypertext Preproccesser: Hypertext Preprocesser?

Just something I thought about. A bit of a circular loop, huh?

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:36 PM (#2)

Woah... I bet they designed it that way! It bottles the mind...

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:39 PM (#3)

Brings back memories of trying to figure that out.

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Kyek, on 07 February 2011 - 07:11 AM, said:

Though anyone who thinks Europe is a country should be smacked in the face. By a train.

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 07:40 PM (#4)

The history behind this is it started as Personal Home Page tools (or some such), but when it because more than a hacked up Perl/C script, the meaning was changed to better reflect what it is.

It is now a recursive acronym, http://en.wikipedia....cursive_acronym — similar to GNU, GNU's Not Unix.

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Posted 08 March 2010 - 10:25 PM (#5)

Ahh, I was gonna bring up GNU too

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Posted 09 March 2010 - 12:00 AM (#6)

I don't think JAVA stands for anything, maybe the drink that the programmers had while coming up with it?

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Posted 09 March 2010 - 12:40 AM (#7)

Danm guys... I spent 40 minutes reading 'bout recursive acronyms 'cause of this...

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