$ whois php

PHP

first released in 1995 · by Rasmus Lerdorf

$ guessprog --inspect php

year: 1995
paradigm: multi paradigm
family: other
memory: reference counting
binding: dynamic
safety: weak

PHP(7)

AUTHORS: Rasmus Lerdorf
HISTORY: Rasmus Lerdorf wrote a set of C programs in 1994 to track visits to his online résumé, and released them in 1995 as "Personal Home Page Tools". He never meant to create a programming language, and the tools grew features one at a time as users asked for them. In 1997 Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans rewrote the parser, which became PHP 3, and the name was turned into the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". Their later rewrite, the Zend Engine, still powers PHP today.
USAGE: One of the most widely deployed server-side languages: it runs a large share of all websites, including WordPress, Drupal and much of the web hosting world. Modern PHP, with frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony, remains a mainstream choice for web development.
SEE ALSO: PHP on Wikipedia ↗

$ cat languages.php

<?php
$languages = ['PHP' => 1995, 'Perl' => 1987, 'Ruby' => 1995];
arsort($languages);
?>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($languages as $name => $year): ?>
  <li><?= htmlspecialchars($name) ?> (<?= $year ?>)</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>