ONLamp: A Decade of PHP

“New languages always have to prove themselves. Listen to some
old programmers, and there was never a need to go further than
MUMPS. (But luckily, no one listens.) Others claim that no text
processing language can outdo Icon or Snobol. I never thought I’d
be editing material on Forth for an O’Reilly book, but danged if
author John Catsoulis didn’t decide it was just the ticket for an
embedded systems designer in his new edition of Designing Embedded
Hardware.

“Stop it, Andy! You’re not here to sell books today.
You’re here because your buddy Zak Greant let you know that PHP is
seeing it’s tenth anniversary today, and is coordinating a
worldwide movement to honor and thank its creator, Rasmus
Lerdorf.

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