Rasmus Lerdorf: The Creator of the PHP Programming Language

Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies. In 1993 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering. Since September 2002, he has been employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer.

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1.       Rasmus Lerdorf: Personal Home Page

2.       R.Lerdorf interviewed by S.Machlis for ComputerWorld, Feb. 2002

3.       R.Lerdorf, interviewed for SitePoint by K.Yank, May 2002

4.       Do You PHP? An introductory article by Rasmus Lerdorf about the past, the present and the future of PHP