RE: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Hell, for the past year or two, I've been replacing/writing new shell scripts written in BASH/Perl with PHP. None of them output HTML. ;) [/snip] Pretty Hot Performer Actually I had done a lot of this as well. Sometimes much quicker than SED and AWK are for getting the command line wid

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-17 Thread Stut
I'm a bit confused by the need for this debate. As far as I'm concerned PHP stopped being an acronym a while back. Why can't it just be PHP? Why does it need to be redefined? Does anyone actually use the full name these days? In essence, does it really matter? -Stut -- PHP General Mailing Lis

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-17 Thread John Nichel
Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, February 16, 2006 9:38 am, tedd wrote: Gustavo said: This great programming language is *much more* than a Hypertext Pre-Processor! It is? I've seen a fair number of PHP applications that had nothing to do with Hypertext... GD, libPDF, Ming, GTK... Hell,

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-16 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, February 16, 2006 9:38 am, tedd wrote: > Gustavo said: > >>This great programming language is *much more* than a Hypertext >> Pre-Processor! > > It is? I've seen a fair number of PHP applications that had nothing to do with Hypertext... GD, libPDF, Ming, GTK... The list goes on. I was h

RE: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-16 Thread Finner, Doug
> In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what > PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming > language you ever saw. >Not disagreeing, just wondering if people here see PHP as a programming language, or a scripting language? Just curious >what the

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-16 Thread tedd
Gustavo said: This great programming language is *much more* than a Hypertext Pre-Processor! It is? A rose by any other Shakespeare I am what I am ... -- Popeye And don't forget: perche' un cambiamento tira l'altra -- Machiavelli tedd -- non sum qualis eram -- and aren't we all? -- -

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Curt Zirzow
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:00:38PM +1000, Ligaya Turmelle wrote: > On the IRC - been told it's for "Pretty Horny People" ;) LOL +1 Curt. -- cat .signature: No such file or directory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Ligaya Turmelle
On the IRC - been told it's for "Pretty Horny People" ;) LOL Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jay Blanchard wrote: In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming language you ever saw. Hrm, I thought it was "Peop

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:29, Gustavo Narea wrote: > Hi, Jay. > > Jay Blanchard wrote: > > [snip] > > Please take a look at this post and > > this comment by Chris Shiflett > > . > > > > They aren't saying this

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jay Blanchard wrote: In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming language you ever saw. Hrm, I thought it was "People Hate PERL" . :-D /me ducks and runs -- First Corollary of Taber's Secon

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Gustavo Narea
Hi, Jay. Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Please take a look at this post and this comment by Chris Shiflett . They aren't saying this acronym has to change, but it could be better... So, why don't we change it

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Robert Cummings
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:48, Richard Davey wrote: > On 15 Feb 2006, at 19:59, Jay Blanchard wrote: > > > In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what > > PHP > > stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming > > language you > > ever saw. > > Not disagr

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Davey
On 15 Feb 2006, at 19:59, Jay Blanchard wrote: In the end it is not worth worrying about. If someone asks you what PHP stands for tell them it stands for the best darned programming language you ever saw. Not disagreeing, just wondering if people here see PHP as a programming language, o

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Jochem Maas
Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Please take a look at this post and this comment by Chris Shiflett . They aren't saying this acronym has to change, but it could be better... So, why don't we change it? That's w

RE: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Please take a look at this post and this comment by Chris Shiflett . They aren't saying this acronym has to change, but it could be better... So, why don't we change it? That's what I mean. In the end,

Re: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Gustavo Narea
Hi, Jay. Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Don't you think that PHP should no longer stand for "Hypertext Pre-Processor"? [/snip] I don't think that anyone is really worried about this anymore. Please take a look at this post and this comment by Chris Shifle

RE: [PHP] PHP !== Hypertext Pre-Processor

2006-02-15 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Don't you think that PHP should no longer stand for "Hypertext Pre-Processor"? [/snip] I don't think that anyone is really worried about this anymore. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php