Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.lang.php Subject: Re: anyone else writing Linux (or cross-system) applications in PHP? Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:04:32 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <51110360.2000400@arnowelzel.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7670856aea848d9c0786b7b371a202d7"; logging-data="16815"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+dVnNHlU48THFx6vVVyZe7Vwx5orTXGh8=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:hz4yjU5D1tE0p8RlmVqvOAyrFlo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:8272 crankypuss, 2013-02-04 16:57: > On 02/04/2013 05:23 AM, Jasen Betts wrote: >> On 2013-02-03, crankypuss wrote: >>> 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. >> >> php.net says some feaures were inspired by perl. >> >>> 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. >> >> That's no more "coming from perl" that what I write here is "coming >> from Crankypuss" >> > > Wikipedia, the encyclopedia anyone can edit. I just corrected this part in Wikipedia, since none of the cited sources refer to Perl at all - PHP was a set of binary tools written in C. They had nothing to do with Perl at all except some ideas for the syntax for the interpreter. -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de