in reply to (OT) Revisionist History Lesson

Maybe if you read the lines you quote closely, you will realize that the interpretation is correct:

PHP succeeds an older product, named PHP/FI.

PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple se
+t of Perl scripts.

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So, "PHP" proper is different from 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.

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So, PHP was written in C.

What is the point of your post?

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Re^2: (OT) Revisionist History Lesson
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 20, 2019 at 11:44 UTC
    What is the point of your post?

    Debunking Revisionist History: 

    PHP began life as a simple little cgi wrapper written in Perl.
https://www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.php

I wonder why people keep writing that PHP was ever written in Perl. It never was.
https//twitter.com/rasmus/status/226405807305138176
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      Obviously to Rasmus, PHP/FI is different from PHP.

      Also, I think even if PHP was once written in Perl, whether its primary author considers it to be that way or not has very little bearing on Perl nowadays. Maybe you want to take this discussion elsewhere. Maybe there is a history website where you can record such things to your taste.

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        AFAIK

        PHP 0 aka "Personal Home Page" was 1994 Perl and never released, nor called PHP.

        PHP 1 aka "PHP Tools - Personal Home Page Tools" was C and released 1995.

        PHP ? aka "Personal Home Page Construction Kit" (www.php.net/manual/phpfi2.php)

        PHP 2 aka "PHP/FI 2.0 - Personal Home Page/Form Interpreter" (like CGI+DBI)

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