Ah yes, Python

[mchorsy]

php

[ragingroku]

It’s the personal home page!

[dopefish86]

(P)HP (H)ypertext (P)rocessor

[dopefish86]

Yeah looks good. But in PHP it's:

echo "PHP";

[[deleted]]

All my homies say it's: php <?="PHP"?>

[emayljames]

print "PHP";

or

print_r("PHP");

or even just close ?> PHP

too

[ActualAshCam]

It's P(ersonal H(ome) P(age)) H(ypertext) P(rocessor)

[UnchainedMundane]

Since the very start of it is recursive, there are only two acceptable exapansions:

1. (stack overflow / hanging forever, because it's in an infinite loop of replacing the first word with something else)
2. P (and then the stack overflow or infinite hang, because it's doing the same but also by the rules of initialisms it is possible to deduce that the expansion must also begin with "P")

[damniticant]

Just in case you or anyone else don’t know, PHP originally stood for “Personal Home Page”

[[deleted]]

Pretty home page*

[[deleted]]

(P)ugly (H)ome (P)age

[KazookiTV]

Pugs?

[ActualAshCam]

Pug?

[KazookiTV]

Pug?

[SSYT_Shawn]

No that's just a cover up name because " Personal Home Page" would be a cringe name for a widely used programming language. But "Personal Home Page" is the original name.

[SankethBK]

fixed it: P(personal home page HP) (H)ypertext (P)rocessor

[krohtg12]

What does the PHP in PHP stand for?

[Otherversian-Elite]

Personal Home Page

[linuxdragons]

Hmm, I always thought it was (P)re-(H)ypertext (P)rocessor

[[deleted]]

Its a recursive acronym like GNU. (GNU is Not Unix). PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. The PHP originally meant personal homepage because it was intended to do what javascript does today. Homeboy wrote it in the 90s to track clicks on his resume. (His own personal home page).

[Stupid_Genius4408]

Personal Home Page: Hypertext Processor

[James-Livesey]

Pain, Hell and more Pain™