Aatube to Today I Learned@lemmy.world • edit-26 months agoTIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"twitter.commessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down130file-text
arrow-up1-17arrow-down1external-linkTIL "npm" officially stands for "npm is not an acronym"twitter.comAatube to Today I Learned@lemmy.world • edit-26 months agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•edit-26 months agoPHP stands for PHP Hypertext Processor GNU stands for GNUs Not Unix
minus-squareAatubeOPlinkfedilink3•6 months agoapparently PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”
minus-square@pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoI’ve never heard that, and it doesn’t really make sense in terms of PHP does, but anything is possible.
minus-squareericMlinkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months 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