PHP was written in C. To quote Rasmus Lerdorf: “I wonder why people keep writing that PHP was ever written in Perl. It never was. #php” The PHP history page a

PHP was written in C. To quote Rasmus Lerdorf: “I wonder why people keep writing that PHP was ever written in Perl. It never was. #php” The PHP history page at one point claimed it was: https://web.archive.org/web/20090426061624/http://us3.php.net/history.php https://web.archive.org/web/20090426061624/http://us3.php.ne... He may have had some Perl scripts on his computer before the 1.0 C release, but that’s a far cry from “PHP was written in Perl”.