MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 started early again at 8:20 am with PHP on Hormones by the father of PHP Ramus Lerdorf.
A very funny man, one of the best insightful talks of the conference (rather scary actually). Here are some opening comments.
- In his own words as Keynote speaker. “I’m here because I’m old”.
- Php 1 from 1994 started after seeing Mozilla in 1993. Because it was just me using it, I could change the language any time.
- In 2005 the code looks like this (in comparison on 1995) — I’m not sure if this is worth 10 years of development
- I wrote PHP to avoid programming
- It’s changed to be more OO because people expect that. Universities teach this.
- Hey, I was fixing bugs in my sleep. Iwould wake up, and in my mail …