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Rasmus Lerdorf - 25 Years of PHP - phpday 2019

GrUSP · 3.1K views · 2019-07-11 · 1:12:27

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Rasmus Lerdorf marks 25 years of PHP at phpday 2019 with a look at the highlights and lowlights of the language. He argues for upgrading PHP versions, covering performance, static analysis, zero-cost profiling and dead code elimination.

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HN uses it as the primary source for PHP's origins as a templating system for C and for the story behind its inconsistent function design.

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aspratley · 2020-02 · Reference

Rasmus Lerdorf has talked about it in other videos but this is one [VIDEO] Basically, groups of functions are consistent: string,array etc. Their parameter order was usually based on whatever the underlying C API was.

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ptx · 2020-01 · Reference

PHP certainly works just fine when used well, but what in particular makes it a great introductory language? (As for what's (arguably) wrong with it, have a look at this talk[1] by Rasmus Lerdorf about its creation. He intended it as a quick and dirty templating system for C programs. Because it was never designed to be a programming language, but somehow organically grew into one, it lacks (in the eyes of some) the elegance of a purposefully designed language.) [1] [VIDEO]

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qilo · 2019-09 · Reference

The original untrimmed video of this talk by GrUSP (Italian PHP events organizer) can be found here: [VIDEO]

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