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webmaven
5y ago
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> Remember the P was for PHP or Perl.
Or Python.
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ipaddr
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You are right. Was it used for anything else? The m could be mysql or microsoft sql but rarely was anything aside from mysql (and postgres but the name never fit)
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5y ago
No, that was it. There were alternative acronyms of course, like WAMP (Windows, etc.) or LAPP (incorporating Postgres as you mentioned).
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