Most people don't know this and the timeline also doesn't make it very clear: PHP never started as a language but as a templating system for C.
Feature requests were quickly added and that's why PHP became a language with a lot of quirk's.
Today that is totally different. As a scripting language it is blazing fast. It still has some strange corners, but it's amazing that a templating system because such a wide used language.
Feature requests were quickly added and that's why PHP became a language with a lot of quirk's.
Today that is totally different. As a scripting language it is blazing fast. It still has some strange corners, but it's amazing that a templating system because such a wide used language.