Pragmatic Optimism: How PHP Conquered the Web
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Claims that PHP grows organically from glue into a real language and that its endurance comes from pragmatic choices not purity The evidence: a timeline of concrete engineering changes from CGI to mod_php to the Zend Engine and PHP 7 8 features; infrastructure wins like shared hosting and modules that keep sites running; ecosystem tools like PDO and FFI that enable databases and native libraries The result is millions of working deployments — WordPress, Wikipedia, Etsy — and measurable performance and safety improvements over time
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 13:11FORTRAN
- 16:18ALGOL
- 18:17The Tragic, Yet Rewarding, History of COBOL
- 26:05How to Create a Dynamic Webpage (1993 Version)
- 33:04Virtual Hosting
- 45:17Who is PHP for?
