They found the PHP?
replyYes, actually PHP was not invented but discovered in nature. That’s why it’s a bit wild sometimes, because it still remembers its origins.
replyPHP was born as a templating language, but mutated into a programming language, and then grew organically from there.
replyCraziest part is it was never even intended to be a programming language. From the Wikipedia page, the founder Rasmus Lerdorf is quoted as saying:
reply"I don't know how to stop it [...] there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language [...] I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."
And 23 years later here we are with php2shell and it powering 70% of the internet’s websites
Everything becomes a programming language in due time. At work we have YAML files with #if and #include statements…
replyDoes that mean eventually a programming language becomes a crab or a crab becomes a programming language?
replyCrabs are programs
replyIs that before or after it evolves to read mail?
replyBut that only raises the question: what bore PHP? A bit of a C(hicken) and an egg situation.
replyI am reasonably certain PHP is not written in Chicken.
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(Scheme_implementation...
I mean there's no way there was any intelligent design behind it
reply/ducks and runs
Didn't know that the PHP was lost, thanks for pointing that out.
replyThey found the PHP vulnerability that has upended the world, or so it seems.
replyThe Princely Hippopotamus Parlor in this case.
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