The Stack Overflow Podcast

How a college extra-credit project became PHP3, still the bedrock of the web

A high school class on Pascal launched Andi’s interest in programming (starting on an Apple IIc). Andi was bored with his university studies and took on an extra-credit programming project that turned into PHP3 , the version that built a million websites. PHP gets a lot of hate , and we have two theories about why. First, it’s primarily brownfield…