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Actually, IIRC, PHP's design was based on a mix of perl and C. They
didn't like either, but like features from both. So they combined them
and made a new language. I don't recall any more history than that. I
am sure a google search would turn up more on the history of PHP.


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 10:32:44 -0600, Bob Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think Perle is too much like the Pascal of its day. Cool and sexy to the
> CompSci nerds, but for the masses it is just too ugly. At the end of the day
> there will always be Perle, but PHP will be "used most" as IBM would say.
> -Bob

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