| ▲ | awestroke 7 hours ago |
| They found the PHP? |
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| ▲ | hk__2 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Yes, actually PHP was not invented but discovered in nature. That’s why it’s a bit wild sometimes, because it still remembers its origins. |
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| ▲ | rob74 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | PHP was born as a templating language, but mutated into a programming language, and then grew organically from there. | | |
| ▲ | jc_811 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Craziest part is it was never even intended to be a programming language. From the Wikipedia page, the founder Rasmus Lerdorf is quoted as saying: "I don't know how to stop it [...] there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language [...] I just kept adding the next logical step on the way." And 23 years later here we are with php2shell and it powering 70% of the internet’s websites | | |
| ▲ | karagenit 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Everything becomes a programming language in due time. At work we have YAML files with #if and #include statements… | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Does that mean eventually a programming language becomes a crab or a crab becomes a programming language? | |
| ▲ | xorcist 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is that before or after it evolves to read mail? |
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| ▲ | cwnyth 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | But that only raises the question: what bore PHP? A bit of a C(hicken) and an egg situation. | | |
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| ▲ | kalleboo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean there's no way there was any intelligent design behind it /ducks and runs |
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| ▲ | rob74 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Didn't know that the PHP was lost, thanks for pointing that out. |
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| ▲ | hxugufjfjf 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They found the PHP vulnerability that has upended the world, or so it seems. |
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| ▲ | bix6 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| The Princely Hippopotamus Parlor in this case. |
