Rasmus Lerdorf Quotes

Denmark, Programmer
November 22, 1968

Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer. 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.

PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?

Rasmus Lerdorf
- Job
- Read
- Toothbrush
I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

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
For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

Rasmus Lerdorf
- Folks
- Quotes
- Coder
There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

Rasmus Lerdorf
- Programming
- Don't Understand
I don't like programming. It's tedious.

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- Programming
- Tedious
I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.

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- Thought
- Problems
- Tool
PHP is rarely the bottleneck.

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- Bottleneck

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

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

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- Caring
- Standard
I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

Rasmus Lerdorf