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crankypuss, 2013-02-03 12:13:

> On 02/02/2013 03:20 PM, Keith D. Lee wrote:
>> All:
>>   What about Perl?
>>
> 
> Enjoy.  No reason not to go back to the predecessor of PHP.  That's
> where PHP came from, y'know.  Some fellow whose name I don't recall
> built it to do the things Perl wasn't set up for.  google "PHP history"
> there's a bit in wikipedia about it.

Ahem - no, PHP did not come from Perl.

Read the original source, not Google or Wikipedia:
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php>

PHP took some ideas from Perl but originally PHP was just a set of CGI
tools which had nothing to do with Perl at all.


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