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Edited: you might be thinking of C++ ? I don’t think php ever compiled to C, based on a quick scan of the Wikipedia page. I thought it compiled to perl at one
by javagram 7y ago
Edited: you might be thinking of C++ ?
I don’t think php ever compiled to C, based on a quick scan of the Wikipedia page. I thought it compiled to perl at one point but that doesn’t seem to be true either.
- solarkraft 7y agoIt never compiled to C, but it was first intended to only provide bindings to libraries that were written in C.
- wirrbel 7y agoIirc it was kind of like a templating language first. Imagine writing a cgi-bin c application and becoming tired of writing out HTML with printf statements.