Interview with PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf

Thank you Rasmus
Without a doubt, PHP is the world’s most popular web-scripting language that’s used in hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of websites throughout cyber space (the Internet). TWit.tv had a chat with PHP’s legendary creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, to gather his thoughts on PHP and FOSS today.

Thank you Zeev & Andi
By the way, please note that PHP became a household name after Andi Gutmans (also see here) and Zeev Suraski (2 brilliant, hardcore Israeli C/C++ programmers) created the Zend engine, which now powers the language. If anything, these 2 dudes deserve just as much credit (if not more) than Rasmus. Let’s just say that creating (programming) programs that allows you to create other programs is one of the most complex tasks in all of Computer Science or Software Engineering. Ditto for programmers who create Operating Systems like Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Unix, Windows, Mac OS/X or VAX/VMS. Oh, throw in RDBMSs like Oracle 10g, DB2, Sybase ASE, Microsoft SQL Server, PostGreSQL, and MySQL.

Listen up
If you’d like to listen to the interview, just grab the audio files (Ogg audio 64kbps mono, 25.65MB – MP3 file). See the intro below, which I found on the TWiT website:

FLOSS Weekly 12: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf
PHP Creator, Rasmus Lerdorf, talks about the origins of PHP, the challenges of open source development, and his favorite PHP programs…