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PHP was originally a layer over Perl. It's in the first paragraph of the history. It doesn't NOW have anything to do with Perl... but it's pretty easy to see s
by whiskeyjack 16y ago
PHP was originally a layer over Perl. It's in the first paragraph of the history.
It doesn't NOW have anything to do with Perl... but it's pretty easy to see some of that history in the code.
- davidw 16y agoThe post I was responding too makes it sound like PHP was some sort of fork of Perl, which is most certainly not the case. You're right of course that there are some things that were borrowed.