Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He co-authored and inspired the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participating 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. November 1968
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Famous Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

“Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

php.devel Mailing List, October 2002 http://osdir.com/ml/php.devel/2002-10/msg00704.html

“I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

sitepoint.com http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf

“I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language […] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail58.html quoted in www.dasgenie.com http://www.dasgenie.com/scrap/archives/000060.html

Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

“There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

“PHP is rarely the bottleneck.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@"PHP Performance" Talk, July 29, 2010 in San Francisco http://talks.php.net/show/digg/7

“I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

sitepoint.com http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf/5

“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@rasmus http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/1938080214814720

“PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@rasmus https://twitter.com/rasmus/status/466911047044300800

“I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail58.html

“I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

@rasmus http://twitter.com/rasmus/statuses/7636370468

“I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

Itconversations.com http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3298.html

“Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen()”

Rasmus Lerdorf

http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691

“If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question.”

Rasmus Lerdorf

PHP.net: eval http://php.net/eval, Anonymous comment, 2004 <br class="br"> PHP in a Nutshell https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-in-a/0596100671/re47.html by Paul Hudson, 2005

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