| Name | Email | Choice | Comments |
| Zeev Suraski | bourbon@netvision.net.il | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Ben Rothe | benrothe@willran.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Patrick Lenz | scoop@freshmeat.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Hal Snyder | hal@vailsys.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Peter Kovacs | kovacsp@egr.uri.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | While XML isn't hypertext per se, it definitely isn't HTML and Hypertext will atleast try to avoid that conflict. |
| Jay Bloodworth | jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | This space intentionally left blank |
| Manuel Oñate | mom@momsoftco.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Great product!!! |
| Pedro Melo | melo@co.telenet.pt | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Hypermedia was a close call, but a little to pompous (sp?) for me |
| Erik Liljencrantz | erik@eldata.se | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Professional Hypertext Processor
would be less geeky than the
recursive GNU-like definitions though
as a programmer I could learn to like
it...
|
| Pedro Figueiredo | pfig@ip.pt | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Pablo Godel | godel@iwcc.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | None, go on with the good work |
| Tom Henry | tomhenry@direct-connection.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Staying closer to the 'original' name would be nice:
i.e.
"Professional Homepage Preprocessor"
Also - it eliminates the HTML v Hypertext v Hypermedia conflicts.
|
| David HUnt | dhunt2@umbc.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Enjoying PHP... |
| Joe Klemmer | klemmerj@webtrek.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Call it "Fred" as long as it remains the
greatest web development tool in
existence. |
| Adam Trachtenberg | adam@student.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Mark Jeftovic | markjr@privateworld.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Pascal Deschênes | pdes@coba.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Hypertext is a more general term |
| Pascal Le Bail | pascal@ims.at | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I don't like the word "hypermedia", and _one_ abbreviation is sufficient! |
| Jeff Vier | boinger@mailhost.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I think we're taking ourselves a bit too seriously with these choices. There are plenty of stuffy corporations using GNU programs, and i'm sure 99% of them have no idea what GNU stands for. |
| Wayne Abbott | wabbott@accurate.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | The initial name is comfortable to new
comers. The media part doesn't really
need to be there since a good programmer
will find out all the capabilities PHP
has once they dig deeper. |
| Roger Hill | rhill@mcalbds.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Really, I do not like any of them much.
Why don't you just keep it as PHP without
any expansion? |
| Troy Cobb | tcobb@staff.circle.net | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Thomas Göttgens | thomas@fivemile.org | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Tony McDonald | tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I'd prefer to keep it PHP and let people make up their own minds as to what it all means...
But, if we have to choose something, I suggest HyperText as you'll not put off XML Newbies.
|
| Eric Thelin | eric@generation-i.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Mats Kling | mats@kling.nu | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Karl-Heinz Wild | kh.wild@pircher.at | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Sounds more professional. |
| Steve Fichtner | fichtner@kiva.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Christopher Heschong | chris@wiw.org | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Ben White | ben@platform.net | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Rasmus Lerdorf | rasmus@php.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Cale Hollingsworth | cale@cohesive.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Hybertext sounds to "marketing" orientated. |
| Anthony Norris | anorris@rcsreg.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Less syllables that HTML, catches more of its functionality...
why not: "Profound Hypertext Productions"
go with "catchy" not obscure |
| cheng | cwcheng@mindspring.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Al Brown | abrown@guiworks.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | I don't like any of them.
All too technical, and aren't good choices.
Ie, Java is 'Java' and not Object Oriented Garbage Collecting Platform Indep Language
or OOGCPIL for short.
A preprocessor is somewhat right, but it's really an embedded scrip |
| hermans | km31101@mail.lrz-muenchen.de | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Alexander A. Mityaev | amityaev@hotmail.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | PHP - rules ! ;-)
|
| Laurens van Alphen | alphen@craxx.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jeff Schmitt | schmitt@towson.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | 1) finish the vote
2) reconsider the the acronym
first word, for example:
Practical Hypertext Preprocessor |
| Ben Margolin | ben@talarian.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Colin Viebrock | cmv@privateworld.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I thought some of my suggestions were better:
a) Professional Hypertext Parser
b) Professional Hypertext Project
c) Professional Hypertext Processor
d) Professional Homepage Parser
e) Professional Homepage Processor
f) Parsed Hypertext for Professio |
| Russ Gritzo | gritzo@lanl.gov | PHP HTML Preprocessor | How about circumventing the whole HTML / hyper debate with something like
'PHP Hidden Preprocessor', since at some level it is hidden away in the
server and preprocesses, and it hides complexity from the user?
Of course I will pass on offering 'heuristics', since my programming seems
random at times, or on hieroglyphic (given how obscure my own code can look
even 2 days later) :} R.
|
| Peter | Peter@SpringStreet.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Programmable HTML Preprocessor. Rasmus is on the right track. Think of the news articles as advertising. |
| Greg Barton | greg@createtech.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I agree with the idea that "HTML" is too restrictive, and that "Hypermedia" sounds too hokey. So, #2 is in. But, what about "Pure Hatred for Pascal"? |
| gregory w. denisowski | gregory@9voltnet.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | slicker sounding name |
| Richard Moss | richm@deal-mac.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Stig Venås | stig@venaas.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I think HTML is too narrow and
hypermedia is a little too wide |
| Clay Loveless | clay@crawlspace.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Joshua Kugler | jkugler@inreach.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Getting a little hyper, aren't we? :) |
| David Norris | kg9ae@geocities.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | HTML limits the language to HTML at a first glance. Hypermedia sounds too trendy. Hypertext is not quite clear. So, hypertext may force people to read a detailed description. |
| Jeffrey Hulten | jeffh@premier1.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Dave Richardson | suprdave@kzsu.stanford.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Anthony Lee | jirisan@mail.dual.co.kr | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | I am a beginner to PHP.
Um, I think PHP is Hypertext
Preprocessor currently but
I hope it will be a Hypermidia
Preprocessor. |
| Dave Walton | walton@nordicdms.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| mike | mike@excite.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| eric perlman | eric@yikes.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Dunno, just sounds the best. |
| Daniel Schmitt | pnambic@opal.de | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| GRaeme Merrall | graeme@kc.co.nz | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Sergio Santos | ssantos@netlandia.pt | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Powerfull HTML Prerocessor ;) |
| Ted Behling | webmeister@cyber-wizard.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Nice Web site! |
| Cees Hek | hekc@mcmaster.ca | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | definately not "Hypermedia" since I
don't think making up a new word is
the way to go. Not HTML because of the
XML arguements. After this has been decided, please bury this definition somewhere deep, so we can all go back to just calling it PHP... |
| Frank Duerring | frankd@unterland.de | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jeffrey Watts | watts@sunflower.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| bill | bill_su@yahoo.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Sandino Araico Sánchez | sandino@iac.com.mx | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | sounds just good and that's enough |
| Paulo Candido | pauloc@pobox.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | People Hate Perl
Paradigmatic Hyper Parser
Plenty of Heroic Programmers
|
| Jeffrey Sue | jysue@aloha.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Alvaro Egea Alonso | aegea@tcpsi.es | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I have read the opinios of the dev team.
Is right that only HTML let PHP poor with its
naming. So Hypertext is better.
Thanks for that incredible Script! |
| Kristian Köhntopp | kk@shonline.de | PHP HTML Preprocessor | It is really "People Hate Perl".
|
| Boris Erdmann | b@123.org | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Alternate Vote: Pre Hypertext Processor
Because its not even a whatsoever
...text preprocessor.
Its a text processor |
| Øystein Folkvord | folkvord@orakel.ntnu.no | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Peter Arien | peter.arien@cc.kuleuven.ac.be | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Stefan Livieratos | slip@netzmarkt.de | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Giovanni Bartoli | ciofina@teta.it | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Ralf Kuehnbaum | ralf@geno.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Richard Philips | rphilips@lib.ua.ac.be | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| ivan cornell | ivan.cornell@framestore.co.uk | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| amalesh | ak@living-source.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| s edberg | sbedberg@ucdavis.edu | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | or:
Psyber-Habitat Promulgator ?
Please Harness Pandemonium ?
Programs Harnessing Pandemonium ?
Programming Habitat Partner ?
Plentiful Human Pleasure ?
...I would _at least_ dump the "pre-"
from the official suggestions, eg:
PHP Hypermedia Processor |
| Christian Wibbing | wibbing@student.uni-kl.de | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Hypertext, that's what it is used for |
| Patrick | puzzled@symplexeurope.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Olivier Fontenelle | Olivier.Fontenelle@bigfoot.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | 'hypertext' has a wider meaning than 'HTML'... |
| Petri Edelmann | edepe@myy.helia.fi | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Fabrice Deleau | fdeleau@comtech.be | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Preben Randhol | randhol@pvv.org | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Hypertext and Hypermedia is a too wide concept... |
| John Marshall | git@slack.org.uk | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | They are all horrible names. But hypertext is the least worst(?).
|
| Jim Peters | jpeters@pobox.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jan De Landtsheer | jan@adnaccess.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Whoa Rasmus, a masterpiece of highest
level you wrote here...
I'll stick with HTML in short
(Once one gets involved in creating WWW-
content he (or she) should know what
HTML might mean wouldn't (s)he ?? |
| Daniel Burckhardt | daniel.burckhardt@usa.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jaakko Hyvätti | jaakko.hyvatti@iki.fi | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Marco Iannacone | miannacone@dbk.it | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Patrick Audley | paudley+php3@blackcat.ca | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Robert Augustine | raugustine@ta-corp.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | none |
| Bruce Woodward | BGW@Cyberstore.CA | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Mark Musone | musone@afterfive.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| DeJuan Jackson | djackson@cpsgroup.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | I say go for clarity and let the fads sort themselves out. |
| Dan Nedoborski | info@ov-m.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Sounds and works |
| Noam Mendelssohn | Nosferat@vipe.technion.ac.il | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Heya ppl.
Big thanx go to Andi gutmans, the young soldier, and Zeev Suraski, forever optimist.
|
| Jay Cuthrell | jay@nortel.net | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Since this can be used to do more than
hypertext preprocessing I am inclined
to use the term "media" |
| Darrell Brogdon | dbrogdon@clever.net | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Leon Atkinson | leon@clearink.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Rick Beebe | richard.beebe@yale.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Seems like you're stuck on the GNU-recursion kick.
But in this case it's more obfuscating than cute.
I also don't see the need for Pre- on all those. My vote would
be Programmable Hyper(text|media) Processor. Or
Penultimate Helper [for web] Pages. |
| Emily Arkin | emily_arkin@harvard.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jacob Anawalt | tech@sswa.hass.usu.edu | PHP HTML Preprocessor | I like the recursive name idea. |
| Dmitri Dubovoy | ddubovoy@yahoo.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Mike Haldas | mike@primonet.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Santosh Mallesan | sansud@yahoo.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Doug Dunlop | dunlop@eol.crestech.ca | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | How about making the first P stand for something like "Polymorphic Hypermedia Preprocessor"? |
| David Bullock | davidbullock@tech-center.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | "KISS" |
| Ed Eggermont | ed@dsv.nl | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| F. Malfatto | fmal@fmal.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | I disagree that "PHP means 'PHP HTML
Preprocessor'". It is self-referencing!
(remember Godel ?) I think that the
meaning of an acronym could not contain
the same acronym ! |
| Reidar Bratsberg | reidar@ravn.no | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Nuno Nunes | nuno.nunes@co.ip.pt | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Thank god for something this easy to use,
yet this POWERFULL!!
|
| Juraj Bednár | bednar@isternet.sk | PHP HTML Preprocessor | PHP isn't either Hypertext nor Hypermedia preprocessor, it is simply HTML, I think... And it's good in that, guys ! |
| Stig Bakken | ssb@guardian.no | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Better vote for ones own suggestions.
|
| Egon Schmid | eschmid@delos.lf.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Daniel Chao | u4506105@mbc1.scu.edu.tw | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Chris Panayis | chris@freedom2surf.net | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Cos it's way kool! |
| Joe | joe@jlknet.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Where did I put my copy of 'A Tale of Two Cities' and my OCR software?????? ;-) |
| Ralf Siepker | info@siepker.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | don´t like the other ones! ;-) |
| William W. Ferrell | choadster@earthlink.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I still thought "Professional Home
Pages" was cool, but I agree that a
name change might be appropriate. |
| John Bryant | johnnyb@electricvillage.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | I don't really like any of them better than the current name. |
| Kathie Ferraro | kathie@hardlink.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Mir S Islam | mislam@mindspring.net | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | I like the hypermedia option better since
it not only processes hypertext but also
other media (eg graphics). |
| Trurl McByte (AKA Alex Rassoha) | trurl@asteria.odtel.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Pofig!!!! |
| Joris Trooster | trooster@interstroom.nl | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Dariusz Pazdzior | admin@wroc.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| matt riffle | php-net@riffnet.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Tim Decker | tdecker@cyber-corp.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I think it should be Pretty Hot Product. |
| Brian Moon | brianlmoon@iname.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Eric Bazerghi | eric@thehouse.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | When I see the word HyperText, I keep
thinking of Apple. PHP HTML Preprocessor
is the best choice. |
| Steve Lawrence | steve@eyekon.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Yeay, it's a glitzy word, but then PHP is more than a hypertext or html pre-processor! (I'd even say PHP is glitzy too!) |
| Dave Peckham | dpeckham@austinite.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Stary Milos | stary@morbasin.cz | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Jack Moffitt | jack@smu.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Rich Yumul | chewie@dtai.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Ken | ken@collectors.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I would like "Scripting Language" in the name. |
| Joseph Sloan | jjs@c-me.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Ludek Smid | smid@brno-city.cz | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Pete Miller | pete@worldclubs.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Phased Hypertext Processor?
Phased Hypertext Processing?
I think with XML, SGML, etc. making inroads, you should
avoid locking into the current HTML buzzword since PHP
will hopefully be around for a while longer.
|
| Barry Voeten | barry@netland.nl | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jim Fritz | jimfritz@softhouse.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | It is so much more that an HTML Preprocessor, and Hypertext is just a common name (if you will) for HTML. |
| Adelino Monteiro | adelino@infologia.pt | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Hypermedia includes HTML and Hypertext
and besides it sounds better ... |
| Pat Sherrill | patrick@coconet.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | If one has no political, ethical, technical, or religous aversions, go with the partner that brought you (ie. Ramsus). |
| Martin Reeves | mreeves@focusdigital.co.uk | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Andi Gutmans | andi@php.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I think it's the most technically "correct"
name and it also looks much nicer than
having two capitalized words next to each
other. |
| Andrew Barton | andrewb@austinite.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| David Kastrup | David.Kastrup@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Jeremie Miller | jer@jeremie.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Why not try finding a word for the first P? Maybe "Programmable" or "Professional", or... "Perfect" :) |
| Ted Hardy | ewhardy@mindspring.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Charles Hall | chall@totalsports.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Clearly the most appropriate of the three. |
| Thomas Remme | tommy@remme.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Michael Stearne | mstearne@eisolutions.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| strid3r | strid3r@strid3r.dyn.ml.org | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I like PHP, just fine. It's not like anyone is ever going to type all that out anyway... |
| Fabio Mont Alegre | spiceee@inf.ufsc.br | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Hypertext sounds okay. And pretty much works to XML and other SGML documents.
|
| Reiner Kukulies | Reiner.Kukulies@Uni-Koeln.de | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| sylvia sorkin | sorkin@clark.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Javier | javiers@antequera.com | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | Viva GNU!
|
| Patrick Marks | mmarks@interlog.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | 1. Drop the 'Pre'
2. Embedded acronyms don't flow ->
Pocket Hypertext Processor (embedded feel)
Practical Hypertext Processor (easy-to-use)
|
| Chris Marston | cmarston@lands.ab.ca | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Paolo Supino | vrkid@yahoo.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Paul Eberle | peberle@mnic.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Simple to use. |
| David Begley | david@uws.edu.au | PHP HTML Preprocessor | Honestly, "Professional Home Pages" was fine with me; both "hypertext" and "hypermedia" go a little beyond PHP's intended purpose. Not specifying a particular technology (viz., "HTML") keeps things a little more "portable" (HTML vs XML vs ???), too. |
| Barry | barry@webdrive.co.nz | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Thomas Peter Sonne Olesen | tso@data.dti.dk | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Kaj-Michael Lang | milang@tal.org | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Ben Ginter | bginter@abilnet.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Hrm, any other choices? |
| Mark Keaney | mark@antenna.nl | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Paul Schroeder | paulsch@saintjoe.edu | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Just call it PHP.
Kentucky Fried Chicken changed it's company name to KFC.
So why can't Professional Home Pages just become plain PHP? |
| Ophir | ophir@prusak.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I would change the first P to professional |
| Christian Cartus | chc@idgruppe.de | PHP HTML Preprocessor | php is one of the best web/db-connectivity software. |
| Sander Steffann | sander@nederland.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| David Monterroso | pyro-x@conexion.org | PHP Hypermedia Preprocessor | |
| Kevin Lawrence | kevin@alphazed.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Christof Damian | damian@mediaconsult.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Chris Patti | patti@merl.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | I think Hypertext is the best choice..
What if in the future folks use PHP/fi
with XML? |
| Juan A. Pons | jpons@webjack.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Marc Delisle | DelislMa@CollegeSherbrooke.qc.ca | PHP HTML Preprocessor | What would be the meaning of the first P, then? |
| Samuel Romero | sromero@usa.net | PHP HTML Preprocessor | With this people will get the idea of
what PHP does. |
| Brian Bassett | brian@butterfly.ml.org | PHP HTML Preprocessor | |
| Mitch Golden | mitch@spiralmedia.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | |
| Aj | marta@mail.dnvr.uswest.net | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is better |
| Rodolfo Garcia | rgarcia@solei.com | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor | Suggestion:
PH Preprocessor
Good? bad? |
| Dmitry Pomorin | demo@cyberdude.com | PHP HTML Preprocessor | IMHO it expresses the aim of PHP more
exactly. Thanks. |
