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Hi... does the first P really stand for PHP?


kathmeejee

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Hello, I'm kathmeejee, in case you didn't see already. I'm very new to PHP, and thought it might be helpful, and I might learn it faster if I joined a web forum so that others can help me learn.

 

I'm a deli girl at walmart, who has learned as much I could about website coding when I could find the time. I'm working on five website projectst that I hope might both give me a good portfolio while earning me some coin via google adsense while gaining experience. I don't want to be a deli girl forever, lol.

 

As for the question in my title, I googled it, and, apparently it used to stand for personal home page, but they changed it to PHP, and I'm wondering if it's as a reference to Godel, Escher, Bach and their discussion of recursion via Achilles and the Tortoise's experience with the GOD which stands for GOD Of the Djinn, to illustrate the concept of mathematical recursion.

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[...] I'm wondering if it's as a reference to Godel, Escher, Bach and their discussion of recursion via Achilles and the Tortoise's experience with the GOD which stands for GOD Of the Djinn, to illustrate the concept of mathematical recursion.

 

That's a very romantical explanation. But I fear it was just a bunch of drunken guys doing wordplay.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I'm pretty sure it was just "Personal Home Page", but after the Zend guys got involved and it started to take off, they figure that was too lame, and decided to come up with a fantastical story of what it stands for, because the original name is kind of embarrassing now.

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