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born 1968 Denmark
Rasmus Lerdorf (born on 22 November 1968) is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He created the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participated in the development of later versions led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead (who later created blo.gs), Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans, and Zeev Suraski.
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I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.
PHP 8 is significantly better because it contains a lot less of my code.
There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.
PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.
Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.
Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen().
I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.
I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.
PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?
I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.
We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all.
I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer.
For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)
PHP is rarely the bottleneck.
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.
If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.
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