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PHP Alive

PHP
KindProgramming language
Appeared1995
StatusAlive
CreatorRasmus Lerdorf
FamilyC
Sourcewww.php.net ↗

'Personal Home Page' tools grown into the web's backbone — powering roughly three-quarters of server-side sites and, for three decades, written in C's memory-unsafe image.

Influenced by Perl
Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
Descendants Hack

Rasmus Lerdorf's 'Personal Home Page' (1995) — a template that grew a language — powered the early web: WordPress, Facebook's start, and the LAMP stack that ran most of it.\n\nPHP 7/8 made it respectable; it still runs ~75% of the web by some counts — the most-deployed server language ever.

Sources

  1. php.net/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP