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Note: LAMP Isn’t About Perl or Python

Friday, February 24th, 2006
at 1:54pm

I hate to be the bad guy here, but the 'P' in the LAMP stack is about PHP.

I'm not making this up. The Wikipedia entry for the LAMP software bundle points back to the article that coined the term, and the author there clearly states that LAMP stands for Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP.

Anyone else writing tutorial articles, please make note of this. Perl and Python understandably want to hang out with the cool kids, but those languages are LAMP afterthoughts latching onto the 'P' in LAMP like a puppy dry-humping PHP's leg.

I'm not saying that any one language is better than another, but I just can't stand reading articles that define LAMP as an acronym that includes or originally included those other 'P' languages.

Speaking of acronyms, when is the LAMR software stack acronym going to catch on?