PHP has come a long way in the last few years and now its one of the most popular known web language but has any one of us thought why the Name of the language is PHP and nothing else Or what is the full form of PHP. If No read through the complete post here.
I don't know why but the first question that comes to my mind when I start on it is why the programming language name is what it is.
C
When I started on C the same question came to my mind and the answer this is what I found Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs created the C Programming Language in 1971-1972 and at that time there were couple of languages like A and B before C language came into existence and so he named the awesome language as C.
C++
The same question came to mind when I started my quest to learn C++ and probably I found the answer too many times in each book of C++ and so I would not add much detail here. C++ was written by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs during 1983-1985. C++ is an extension of C and so was named with the postfix operator of C to give it one step forward then C.
C#
Couple of years back again the same question came for C# when I started on C# and .NET and the answer I found is # can be broken into ++++ and so its names as #. So now we can understand that C# is an extension of C++ but without backward compatibility with the same compiler.
PHP
Now the same question with PHP. Ohhh, too many questions haaan? But I found this answer the most interesting.
PHP was originally created Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, and was just collection of some Perl scripts and library of C programs for tracking accesses to his online resume. Thus was born the first version of PHP. He named this set of scripts 'Personal Home Page Tools'. He confesses that he created PHP purely to serve his own interest, to solve his own set of problems. He made the source publicly available so others could benefit from it. That set the ball rolling.
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I liked the info about “why named C#?”..I never thought that it cud be the reason..