ZDNet Australia: PHP Creator: Rasmus Lerdorf | Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: PHP Creator: Rasmus Lerdorf

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2003

[ Thanks to Jorge R. for
this link. ]

“Builder Australia recently caught up with PHP innovator Rasmus
Lerdorf, to find out about the success of PHP, the open source
movement around the world, other scripting languages and what we
can expect to see in the next generation of the dynamic scripting
language.

Q: PHP is now being used by over 10 million domains
across the world. How does that make you feel being the originator
of PHP?

“It’s not me, it’s a
whole group of people. It’s the whole community
behind it that created PHP not me. I do feel cool kicking off the
[PHP] community, I do think we did a good job. We have built it so
that it is useful to a lot of people and has changed the way people
see the web, use the Web and it made it more accessible…”


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Web Webster

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