PHPs Paamayim Nekudotayim: The secrets in the code.
Do you know what a Paamayim Nekudotayim is?
Are you a web developer or software engineer? If you’ve used PHP (Hypertext
Preprocessor) to create your websites you would have come across these strange
words. But, why are they there?
Do you know what a Paamayim Nekudotayim is?
Are you a web developer or software engineer? Well come on, spit it out then
(saying these words caused me to accidentally spit on my girlfriend’s arm, she
wasn’t very impressed). If you’ve used PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) to create
your websites you would have come across these strange words. But, why are they
there? I mean, computer languages are strange and different compared with normal
human beings’ tongues, but this is just too weird.
As you might know PHP 3.0 was created by
the Zend team, and it was powered by the Zend Engine 0.5. O.K., now we’re
getting somewhere. Where do people come up with names like Zend’? It doesn’t
sound very cool like, Flash’, Dreamweaver’, or Jaguar’ (the former was put
in for car maniacs). Zend is simply a combination of the first two names of the
engine’s (PHP not Jaguar) makers: Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. Now, you could
say that these guys don’t have much of an imagination, but I don’t think you’d
be on the mark.
A mark: that’s what these guys were leaving
when they created that name. They made a small mark in the history of humanity;
they created something, and left their initials on it so that others might know
that it was individual human effort that created the technology. That brings us
to those oh-so-weird words again: Paamayim Nekudotayim. Hmmm, did you know that
these guys came from Israel?
Within PHP there is what’s known as a
Scope Resolution Operator’ or (::). This double colon is a token that allows
access to static, constant, and overridden members or methods of a class.’
(See: , or are the
people who created it and use it for the betterment of the world?
About the author
Jesse S. Somer is a creative writer working
at M6.Net: The web-hosting company for humans.’ M6.Net is working hard to help
humanity experience the power and freedom to develop their own part of the
Internet, to share their information and connect with anyone, anywhere,
anytime.
Tags: betterment, colon, computer languages, hmmm, human beings, human effort, imagination, initials, israel, jaguar, preprocessor, scope resolution operator, software engineer, strange words, token, tongues, web developer, weird words, zend engine
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