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		kgrin on Jan 11, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some surprising quotes from Rasmus Lerdorf (php cr... To be fair, some ("I still am really bad at writing parsers.") seem to be more signs of humility than confessions of incompetence.

jrockway on Jan 11, 2010 [–]

Read PHP's parser.

sorbits on Jan 11, 2010 | [–]

The parser in PHP 3 and up was written by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP

sjf on Jan 11, 2010 | | | [–]

The original parser was written by Lerdorf (source: your wikipedia link).

But I don't think any of them have anything to be proud of: http://www.steike.com/code/php-must-die/

jawngee on Jan 11, 2010 | | | [–]

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