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Comment by tgma

5 years ago

PHP originated as Personal Home Page. The current official name is a backronym.

>PHP originated as Personal Home Page.

I guess Worlds Most Efficient Security Violation Generator was tool long (WMESVG)

  • A regressive opinion not representative of modern PHP.

    • Thanks for pointing that out. Several years ago, I had a small server running PHP - I had to patch it 3 times in 4 months. It spent more time with patches than I spent rewriting it from scratch.

      I just checked the PHP CVEs, amd it seems it has gone quite a while without high scoring CVEs - so, good for them