My friend Digital Oracle send me link to at Olate.com where the two original creators of PHP and Zend ? Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans were interviewed recently. Here is a small snip:-
"What kind of work goes into developing the PHP language? It is such a popular web scripting system now, what is your inspiration?
I think that the simplest way to answer it is that we did our best trying to figure out what developers of Web sites would want and need. We tried to learn from the mistakes of other scripting languages such as PHP/FI and Perl, and create something that would be much easier to learn and use than compiled languages such as C++ and Java. We invested a lot of thinking as to what not to put into the language, just as much as we thought about what to add in. We invested a lot of efforts to make PHP easy to extend ? so that it will be able to take advantage of the many bright minds around the world that want to improve it. " For full interview warp2... Olate.com
"What kind of work goes into developing the PHP language? It is such a popular web scripting system now, what is your inspiration?
I think that the simplest way to answer it is that we did our best trying to figure out what developers of Web sites would want and need. We tried to learn from the mistakes of other scripting languages such as PHP/FI and Perl, and create something that would be much easier to learn and use than compiled languages such as C++ and Java. We invested a lot of thinking as to what not to put into the language, just as much as we thought about what to add in. We invested a lot of efforts to make PHP easy to extend ? so that it will be able to take advantage of the many bright minds around the world that want to improve it. " For full interview warp2... Olate.com
