Greenland programmer (PHP creator): “I hate programming. But I love to solve problems. ”
Today is the birthday of the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf (dat. Rasmus Lerdorf ). I want to present to your attention a few facts from his biography and a couple of quotes in order to understand the train of thought and the worldview of this “programmer”.
In 1994, Rasmus wrote down a set of Perl / CGI scripts that process templates of HTML documents, which later became an interpreter of the PHP programming language, with which it was possible to solve various tasks of web applications.
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“The PHP we know now is not at all what I did at the very beginning. Dozens, if not hundreds of people participated in the development. I was just the first developer. ”
“PHP is like a toothbrush. You use it every day, it does its job, a simple tool. What do you want to know about toothbrushes? ”
While still at university, Lerdorf developed graphical interfaces for all sorts of corporations. After graduation, he was hired by Nutec Informática, passed under UNIX / DOS, and participated in the development of the Nutec Desktop interface. In 1994, Lerdorf created a graphical interface for the Toronto Internet Service Provider. In the same year, Rasmus created his own company, Lerdorf Consultants Inc.
“I was very bad at writing parsers. I still write suckers for parsers. ”
“There are people who love programming. I do not understand them."
“I'm not a real programmer. I just put together things that worked. A real programmer would say: “It works, but there are memory leaks at every step. It needs to be fixed. “But I just restart Apache every 10 requests.”
In 1994, a script appeared on the net, written by Lerdorf and called "PHP-Tools for Personal Home Page", which collected statistics on web page visits. That it can be considered the beginning of the birth of PHP. The script was open source and Rasmus Lerdorf collected user feedback, processed comments and errors, expanding and improving his own development.
“I don’t know how to stop; I never set out to write a programming language. I just took the next step based on logic. ”
“For those who write down my quotes: I'm a terrible coder, but most likely better than you :)”
“I never considered PHP to be more than just a tool for solving problems.”
From 2002 to 2009, Lerdorf worked at Yahoo! Inc. Being an ardent supporter of open source, Lerdorf keeps in touch with many PHP programmers, improving and modifying his own brainchild every day. He is also the author of over fifteen books on the PHP language.
"PHP is very rarely the weakest link."
“Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem is elegantly — damn hard. ”
“PHP is a hammer. No one made a fortune in the production of hammers. "
Rasmus talks about security with Joomla developers in 2007.
According to Ledorf, the first version of PHP was written literally a day in between business meetings.
Rasmus actively speaks at open source conferences and advises startups.
Happy birthday, Rasmus Ledorf!
Publication support - the company Edison , which develops an alert for traders , as well as makes a system of energy accounting and water supply for the cottage village .
In 1994, Rasmus wrote down a set of Perl / CGI scripts that process templates of HTML documents, which later became an interpreter of the PHP programming language, with which it was possible to solve various tasks of web applications.
')
“The PHP we know now is not at all what I did at the very beginning. Dozens, if not hundreds of people participated in the development. I was just the first developer. ”
“PHP is like a toothbrush. You use it every day, it does its job, a simple tool. What do you want to know about toothbrushes? ”
While still at university, Lerdorf developed graphical interfaces for all sorts of corporations. After graduation, he was hired by Nutec Informática, passed under UNIX / DOS, and participated in the development of the Nutec Desktop interface. In 1994, Lerdorf created a graphical interface for the Toronto Internet Service Provider. In the same year, Rasmus created his own company, Lerdorf Consultants Inc.
“I was very bad at writing parsers. I still write suckers for parsers. ”
“There are people who love programming. I do not understand them."
“I'm not a real programmer. I just put together things that worked. A real programmer would say: “It works, but there are memory leaks at every step. It needs to be fixed. “But I just restart Apache every 10 requests.”
In 1994, a script appeared on the net, written by Lerdorf and called "PHP-Tools for Personal Home Page", which collected statistics on web page visits. That it can be considered the beginning of the birth of PHP. The script was open source and Rasmus Lerdorf collected user feedback, processed comments and errors, expanding and improving his own development.
“I don’t know how to stop; I never set out to write a programming language. I just took the next step based on logic. ”
“For those who write down my quotes: I'm a terrible coder, but most likely better than you :)”
“I never considered PHP to be more than just a tool for solving problems.”
From 2002 to 2009, Lerdorf worked at Yahoo! Inc. Being an ardent supporter of open source, Lerdorf keeps in touch with many PHP programmers, improving and modifying his own brainchild every day. He is also the author of over fifteen books on the PHP language.
"PHP is very rarely the weakest link."
“Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem is elegantly — damn hard. ”
“PHP is a hammer. No one made a fortune in the production of hammers. "
Rasmus talks about security with Joomla developers in 2007.
According to Ledorf, the first version of PHP was written literally a day in between business meetings.
Rasmus actively speaks at open source conferences and advises startups.
Happy birthday, Rasmus Ledorf!
Publication support - the company Edison , which develops an alert for traders , as well as makes a system of energy accounting and water supply for the cottage village .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/315680/
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