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 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

PHP was born as a templating language, but mutated into a programming language, and then grew organically from there.

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jc_811 8 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

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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 6 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.

	▲	Zak 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I am reasonably certain PHP is not written in Chicken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(Scheme_implementation...

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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