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Re: [Savannah-hackers] PHP
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Jaime E. Villate |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] PHP |
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Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:03:55 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:08:09PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> People who work on PHP, in a license discussion, are telling me that
> PHP produces an output file (much as Bison does) which then gets run.
> I had thought that PHP was an environment, not just a translator,
> and that programs written in PHP were normally run inside PHP itself.
> Can you tell me which it is?
I think you are right and those people who told you that are definitely
wrong. I've always used PHP as a scripting environment and not as a translator
and I do not see any references to such translation mode in its user's manual
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/print/index.php)
Jaime