Quotes by Rasmus Lerdorf

About Rasmus Lerdorf:

Rasmus Lerdorf is a Greenlandic programmer with Canadian citizenship. 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. He continues to contribute to the project.
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The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.

Rasmus Lerdorf

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

Rasmus Lerdorf

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.

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I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.

Rasmus Lerdorf

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.

Rasmus Lerdorf

I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?

Rasmus Lerdorf

Author Bio

  • NameRasmus Lerdorf
  • DescriptionDanish programmer and creator of PHP
  • BornNovember 22, 1968
  • CountryDenmark
  • ProfessionProgrammer; Computer Scientist; Engineer