I used to see Rasmus around Y! a lot when I was roaming the halls there. He always seemed insightful and down to earth despite being quite well known. I'll be interested to see what he ends up doing next.
I worked with Rasmus at Linuxcare, and he's a great guy, even if I am not so enthusiastic about PHP. By any definition though, PHP was a good 'hack' at the time it came out: it solved a real problem that nothing else was solving adequately.
However I'd say he's directly responsible for the misery the most PHP development now is.
If he actually spent time reading about languages and designing his own, he would throw in function namespacing and function naming conventions and a good built-in abstraction for database access (with a strong bias against SQL injections and towards placeholders/variable binding from the day one), PHP would come out an okayish language and not an universal hate target.
There are some other blunders that he could just not make. And I'm not even dreaming about template system that makes sense now.
He didn't! Who the hell could do that if he wasn't going.
[+] [-] leftnode|16 years ago|reply
Even if you dislike PHP, its undeniable what he's contributed to web development. Best of luck, Rasmus and thank you.
[+] [-] skullsplitter|16 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] ilyak|16 years ago|reply
If he actually spent time reading about languages and designing his own, he would throw in function namespacing and function naming conventions and a good built-in abstraction for database access (with a strong bias against SQL injections and towards placeholders/variable binding from the day one), PHP would come out an okayish language and not an universal hate target.
There are some other blunders that he could just not make. And I'm not even dreaming about template system that makes sense now.
He didn't! Who the hell could do that if he wasn't going.
[+] [-] c00p3r|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bkudria|16 years ago|reply