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As someone who is learning PHP as his first programming language, I am surprised to see similarity in terms to syntax with shell scripts. Are there other popula
by pavs 13y ago
As someone who is learning PHP as his first programming language, I am surprised to see similarity in terms to syntax with shell scripts. Are there other popular language with php-like sytax?
- username42 13y agoThe syntax of php was inspired by Perl (and C). Perl was inspired by sh/sed/awk.
- pessimizer 13y agoReally algol-like. Most modern procedural languages are as much like PHP as bash is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL