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Looking back at my own experience as a newbie developer in 1995, the convenience of PHP was absolutely the reason I picked PHP over perl, and having arrays that
by seldo 16y ago
Looking back at my own experience as a newbie developer in 1995, the convenience of PHP was absolutely the reason I picked PHP over perl, and having arrays that could also be dictionaries if I changed my mind was a big part of that.
- chromatic 16y agoWhat kind of programs are these where you don't have to rewrite a bunch of other code anyway to account for the difference between keyed and indexed lookups?
- neilk 16y agoPHP programs.
- bobbyi 16y agoIn 1995, PHP was a set of Perl scripts that Rasmus had just posted on Usenet.
- joeuser12 16y agoUh no. PHP in 1995 was very much in C. Go look at the (now famous) Usenet announcement.