PHP: The lamborghini Language
In the Beginning In the 1990's, when the internet was becoming a common occurrence, the most common way to design a website was to create a static website. This involved creating websites in HTML. The websites had one drawback, they could not be used to perform some features that are being performed by today's back-end technologies. To be able to combat this, some of the earliest technologies used the Common Gateway Interface(CGI). CGI was a protocol that allow external applications to interact with the server. Due to their complexity, they were later preceded by their implementations in programming languages like Perl, ColdFusion and Active Server Pages just to mention a few. The birth of the "Lambo" Language Just like every other technology out there, the Benevolence Dictator for Life for PHP is Rasmus Lerdorf. He created the language to replace the CGI scripts that he would write in C (source was Gemini). The language was a huge hit among web developer helping ...