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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

As possible

Hello.
What does 'ass possible' mean in
"Back then, the main goal was to have the minimum amount of logic as possible in order to achieve results, and this led to PHP being HTML-centric - that is, PHP code was embedded inside HTML."??
http://www.tuxradar.com/practicalphp/2/1/2

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You can think of "the minimum amount of logic as possible" as an alternative way of saying "as little logic as possible". Back then, the main goal was to have as little logic as possible in order to achieve results... I think this is very similar to the following example Try to make as little noise as possible!

— Ivanhr

  • You can think of "the minimum amount of logic as possible" as an alternative way of saying "as little logic as possible".
  • Back then, the main goal was to have as little logic as possible in order to achieve results...
  • I think this is very similar to the following example Try to make as little noise as possible!
  • Try to make the least amount of noise as possible!
  • (awkward but just serves to illustrate the point that "the least amount of" is equivalent to "the minimum amount of") With superlatives (the least amount), the structure with only one "as" is used.
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You can think of "the minimum amount of logic as possible" as an alternative way of saying "as little logic as possible".

Back then, the main goal was to have as little logic as possible in order to achieve results...

I think this is very similar to the following example

Try to make as little noise as possible!

Try to make the least
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