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PHP: Simplifying Web world
While Rasmus Lerdorf was creating PHP in 1995 for his personal usage to make his home page interactive yet programmatically simple, he would not have even thought of the world wide utility and hype it could invoke among the techies. Originally an abbreviation for Personal Home page, it was not until 1997 when two Israeli developers rectified the original version and called it by the name its known today- Hypertext Preprocessor. The result was enormous. It was more- friendlier and functional than before. PHP got more advanced and hi-tech when Zend Engine added to it. This add-on upgraded PHP in terms of security and bugs-safety …
Apple(t) of the eye: Java
Oak…Err…Green…err Java. Not many languages in the computer programming history had gone through changes of names like Java had. Java was a brainchild of James Gosling who was working with Sun Microsystems then. It was in 1995 when Java saw the daylight outside Sun Microsystems chambers and the whole computer fraternity witnessed the first public release of the language which promised a hassle free inter operation on multi computer platforms …