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Yeah, that’s definitely better than the recursive backronym. It’s still not good though! Apparently the PHP people just aren’t great at naming their language, many such cases!
The issue with that one is that it’s just too boring. Hypertext Preprocessor? Boo, who cares, come up with a fun one or get out of here. You know?
It used to be “Personal Home Page” before Mr.
mysql_real_escape_string( $str )himself decided to change it to a recursive backronymYeah, that’s definitely better than the recursive backronym. It’s still not good though! Apparently the PHP people just aren’t great at naming their language, many such cases!
The language, the standard library functions, the fucking core platform version numbering system, and so on and so forth
It’s like I always tell the junior devs – there are only two hard things about programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.