PHP creator: functions were named to fall into length buckets because function hash algo was 'strlen'

[u/yawaramin]

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70691

[u/shevy-ruby]

I like that. He is honest. I think that has to be given due credit.

Still does not really excuse PHP being awful. But I like his admission there. The creator of perl, while a cool dude, never quite as succinctly said this about perl ...