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Re:PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video] by javagram on Sunday October 27, 2019 @09:36AM (#21369589)
Edited: you might be thinking of C++ ?

I don’t think php ever compiled to C, based on a quick scan of the Wikipedia page. I thought it compiled to perl at one point but that doesn’t seem to be true either.

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Re:PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video] by solarkraft on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:01AM (#21369723)
It never compiled to C, but it was first intended to only provide bindings to libraries that were written in C.
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Re:PDC 1996 Keynote with Bob Muglia and Steve Jobs [video] by wirrbel on Sunday October 27, 2019 @10:27AM (#21369883)
Iirc it was kind of like a templating language first. Imagine writing a cgi-bin c application and becoming tired of writing out HTML with printf statements.
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