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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by tyingq on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:32AM (#22692484)
I'd say it was pretty influential for Ruby, CGI-BIN, pcre, and other things that will live on in more refined forms. PHP has some obvious Perl influence as well.

Edit: Maybe also Perl's Configure (crazy wide cross-platform portability) and CPAN. They were pretty ahead of their time.

Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by LeonidasXIV on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:14AM (#22693213)
While I agree that Perl influenced Ruby which I guess in turn influenced CoffeeScript and Elixir to some degree, the lineage of PHP seems to be dead. I don't really know any languages that are inspired by PHP itself, other than maybe Hack which one could argue is very closely related to PHP.
Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by tyingq on Thursday March 26, 2020 @10:03AM (#22693629)
Even if the lineage dies with PHP, that pulls in Facebook and WordPress.

Smarty could possibly take credit for inspiring some of the template engines out there also.

Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by chipotle_coyote on Thursday March 26, 2020 @02:06PM (#22696199)
I still write and actually still (sorta-kinda) like PHP, but there's no major concept/feature I can think of that's intrinsic to PHP rather than inherited from other languages. The Perl (and general "C-like language" influence is notable, and as PHP has matured it's started to feel ever more like Java. ("To write a simple PHP server app, first just initialize your PSR-11 compatible dependency injection container and add your PSR-7 compatible HTTP request/response handlers to it...")
Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by tyingq on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:15PM (#22697464)
The mixed code/template capability seems to have led to JSX.
Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by atishay811 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:20PM (#22695133)
React(Js framework) is close to PHP as a concept. Facebook's team had to take ideas from their exisitng code. With JSX, we could potentially call it a new language.
Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by nicoburns on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:31PM (#22695859)
E4X (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML) is also a likely inspiration for JSX.