Ah, well it is that whole "hacker jargon" mentality from the 70s and 80s.

They like they sort of play on words, like GNU: Gnu is Nut Unix
PHP: Php Hypertext Preprocessor


Only time I got aggravated was when a writer called it Perl Hypertext
Preprocessor.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Scollo" <scollo@t...>
To: "professional php" <pro_php@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:02 AM
Subject: [pro_php] RE: OT: RE: upgrade RE: Virus warn on php !!


> On 2002.03.06 07:50 Nikolai Devereaux wrote:
> >
> > Okay, but if any of those people were writing an article, or even
better,
> > a
> > simple gradeschool homework report on any of those subjects, I'm pretty
> > sure
> > the teacher would read the first sentence and say "The rest MUST be BS."
> >
> > =)
> >
> > My issue has to do with this guy's "authority" on the subject.  He's a
> > technical writer.  I wouldn't mind so much is some random compsci
student
> > said "PHP?  Yeah, isn't that the Personal Home Page thing?"
> >
> > But if you asked one of the columnists for National Geographic and they
> > said
> > that they just did a spread on Czechoslovakia, you'd probably skip that
> > issue, no?
> >
> > nik
>
> I know the problem affects Linux, but what about GNU/Linux?  Is it safe?
> :)
>
> PHP will always have a name problem because "PHP:  Hypertext Preprocesser"
> is so dumb.  If they want to call it "Hypertext Preprocessor", then
> wouldn't "HTPP" be SO much less consusing?  :)
>
>