5 quotes by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf: I don’t like programming, and I’m not a real programmer.

17 Apr
2010
  • I really don’t like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.
  • 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?
  • I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers. We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don’t care about this crap at all.
  • There are people who actually like programming. I don’t understand why they like programming.
  • 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.

Reposted from Axon Flux and Wikiqoute.

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4 Responses to 5 quotes by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf: I don’t like programming, and I’m not a real programmer.

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php tuts

April 18th, 2010 at 9:29 am

Hey nice post.

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Dominik

April 18th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

“I’ll just restart apache every 10 requests.” ROFL!

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Ольга

May 30th, 2010 at 2:40 pm

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PHP Tutor

January 5th, 2011 at 2:11 am

What a gem he created though. He’ll just restart apache every 10 requests! Timeless. Lol.

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