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Danish programmer and creator of PHP

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Rasmus Lerdorf (born on 22 November 1968) 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.

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Alternative Names: Rasmus Jay Lerdorf • Rasmus LLerdorf

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

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

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