15 Dec 2001

http://svn.php.net/viewvc/phpdoc/en/trunk/appendices/history.xml?r1=64852&r2=65199&pathrev=314121

PHP succeeds an older product, named PHP/FI. PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts

05 Aug 2011

https://web.archive.org/web/20110807085055/http://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php

PHP as it's known today is actually the successor to a product named PHP/FI. Created in 1994 by Rasmus Lerdorf, the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language.

20 Jul 2012

https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/226405807305138176

"I wonder why people keep writing that PHP was ever written in Perl. It never was."

I think these would make a lovely gift to developers:

Devel::NYTProf
Devel::REPL
Regexp::Debugger
Pod::Webserver

How about "a friendlier interface to File::Find":

File::Find::Rule

Multiply the speed of Perl by the CPU cores:

MCE (and make it as automatic as possible)

Eat other languages:

FFI::Platypus
Inline

How would you bloat the core?

Will Braswell - "The State of the Scallion Address"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyphRo5roV0

The Perl 11 Master Plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyphRo5roV0&t=27m20s

"If my google alerts don't mislead me Perl is growing nicely in India, China, Russia and Germany... I can testify to growth in Romania, based on the pressure the HR people are putting on me to recruit people from the places I worked before."

I share this good news hoping it will make you happy; and also seeking confirmation from those who know where to find such information.

https://old.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/btt9e9/every_time_i_hear_perl_is_dead_i_think_of_the/eqdno37/

PHP, Python, Ruby, Javascript all start by copying Perl's worst practices, according to computer scientists, to become immensely popular, with no strict and globals everywhere.

But the fun never lasts because they eventually succumb to aspersions of computer scientists to add all sorts of cruft to enforce austerities that satisfy obsessively compartmentalized minds.

I think the reason is this: Languages like Perl force computers to think like people, rather than forcing people to think like computers.

Don't get me wrong, we need the scientists to build and maintain the playgound so we can play, but we also need them to get the heck out of our way, and to stay away!

Hard Fork Perl with a trendy cool name and make sure the batteries are included by throwing in a kitchen sink of about 1000 of the most awesome CPAN modules in a way that will do everything and run everywhere and you may have (another) winner.

Perl 6, seriously, this is sad:

$input.close or die $!;
close($output);

Perl 11 is not (yet) an actual version of Perl; rather, Perl 11 is currently a philosophy with 3 primary tenets:

1. Pluggability Of Perl On All Levels
2. Reunification Of Perl 5 & Perl 6
3. Runtime Performance Of C/C++ Or Faster

Read more at: http://perl11.org

Some lively discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18287939

2018-10-24 Athanasius linkified the links

my $one  = 1;
my $six  =
my $nine = 9;

print $six; # prints 9
[download]

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

print my $J = my $A = my $P = my $H =
'Just',' Another ','Perl',' Hacker';
[download]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18182921

"But seriously, many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell’s Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.

A more insidious trap, promulgated in many places these days (including the most recent Discover magazine), is that a computer program should be beautiful. Let me tell you that when it comes to computer languages, this is totally bogus. If you want to do beautiful art, you don’t go out and buy a beautiful canvas, and a beautiful brush, and a beautiful palette, and slather beautiful paints on it. If you want to write beautiful poetry, this doesn’t happen because you started with a beautiful language. Languages are an artistic medium. I don’t want Perl to be beautiful–I want you to write beautiful programs in Perl.

Finally, I believe that any language essentially should be out of control, because no one person or institution is capable of controlling a language (or a culture, for that matter) without destroying it. Living languages are always a cooperative effort, and I want Perl to be a living language."

From https://www.perl.com/pub/1997/wall/keynote.html

# Is WebPerl the Holy Grail* of universal 
# cross-platform Perl app distribution?
$_=q`

______________
|  PERLAPP   | <- Your Perl app here.
|_____|______|
______v_______
|  WEBPERL   | <- The Holy Grail*
|_____^______|
      |    |
      |    |   <- Internet.
______|____|__
| BROWSER  v | <- Everywhere!
| WEBPERLAPP | <- Downloaded!
|____________|
______|_______
|  WINDOWS   | <- Anything...
|   LINUX    |
|    MAC     |
|    ETC     |
|____________|

* Of universal cross-platform 
Perl application distribution.

`and print
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• Run Perl 5 in the Browser!
• WebPerl Regex Tester (beta)
• Embedding WebPerl Code Demos into Other Pages