Aatube to Today I Learned • edit-21 year agoTIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"twitter.commessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down132file-text
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minus-square@pete_the_catlinkEnglish4•edit-21 year agoPHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
minus-square@pete_the_catlinkEnglish1•1 year agoI’ve never heard that, and it doesn’t really make sense in terms of PHP does, but anything is possible.
minus-squareericMlinkEnglish1•1 year agoThat’s what it originally meant, but it was retconned to be a recursive acronym similar to GNU - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor
GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
apparently PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”
I’ve never heard that, and it doesn’t really make sense in terms of PHP does, but anything is possible.
That’s what it originally meant, but it was retconned to be a recursive acronym similar to GNU - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor