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▲ jc_811 7 hours ago

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 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is that before or after it evolves to read mail?