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		pimlottc on Dec 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If PHP Were British (2011) Well that is certainly unexpected, is there a story behind why a Hebrew term was chosen for this character?

ldjb on Dec 2, 2022 [–]

Much of the PHP internals (the Zend Engine) was created by Israeli developers. I'm not sure why they didn't use English, but clearly they just used their native tongue in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Engine

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