Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorfis 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, Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. He continues to contribute to the project...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 November 1968
CountryDenmark
decision life versus
I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?
interested issues security tend
Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.
browser correctly file silly web
This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.
certainly collection discourage female females helping large male
As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.
build equal open people rewrite source
If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.
file tricks trying
The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.
ugly problem bloody
Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.
simple tools problem
I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.
coders excited terrible
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 :)
hate problem problem-solving
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems
people programming
There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.
programming techie tedious
I don't like programming. It's tedious.
caring world standards
When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.
bottlenecks
PHP is rarely the bottleneck.