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Does the word "hip" mean something in the context of PHP? edit: I mean, is there a reason HHVM and HippyVM both use the word "Hip"?
by dyadic 12y ago
Does the word "hip" mean something in the context of PHP?
edit: I mean, is there a reason HHVM and HippyVM both use the word "Hip"?
- hrttrht 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP
- dyadic 12y agoOh, I should have expanded on my question. I know of HHVM already, I was curious about the use of "Hip" in HHVM and in HippyVm, it appeared that there must be some common heritage
- RussianCow 12y agoI think "Hippy" is just a play on Facebook's "HipHop" VM. Not sure where the latter originated from, though.
- dyadic 12y agoThanks, that makes sense. I already assumed that HHVM just happened because it's a cool name. But then seeing the second use of the word made me think there might be something behind it
- curveship 12y agoThe original project at Facebook was called High-Performance PHP and given the acronym HPHP. Some clever soul then decided that HPHP should be pronounced HipHop. I guess HippyVM is just following in that trend.