Friday, February 25. 2005
Does IBM Get PHP?
C|Net announced that IBM is partnering with Zend to better support PHP. Besides a few minor mistakes (PHP does not stand for, “Personal Home Page” but rather the recursive GNU-style acronym: “PHP Hypertext Preprocessor”) the one point that stands out to me is that IBM is compelled to “spin” PHP as a language for small-to-medium sized applications. Why? Websphere. The company simply has to position PHP in a subservient role to their ultra-expensive web development architecture—otherwise they compete with themselves. Clearly, PHP has proven more agile than Java. But when enterprise shops continue coding PHP and forget, as IBM hopes, to switch to webpshere (or worse, switch and switch back)—what will become of this match made in heaven? Time will tell.
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The statement in the article about the acronym, "PHP, originally known as Personal Home Page," is accurate. The new acronym, "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor," was chosen after a discussion on the php-dev mailing list in early 1998.
Wow. Who knew? Was this PHP3? Or still back when PHP was known as PHP/FI?
The name change was prompted by the PHP 3 release, so the two events occured in parallel.
I think this was the email that prompted the discussion, if you want to see what was said:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=90279166103889&w=2
This was all before I was involved, so I don’t remember how "Hypertext" was substituted in place of "HTML" in the acronym that seemed to be agreed upon, "PHP: HTML Preprocessor."
I think this was the email that prompted the discussion, if you want to see what was said:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-dev&m=90279166103889&w=2
This was all before I was involved, so I don’t remember how "Hypertext" was substituted in place of "HTML" in the acronym that seemed to be agreed upon, "PHP: HTML Preprocessor."
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