On 06/04/2008, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thursday night, I went to London PerlMongers
social drinks and
guzzled ridiculous quantites of Adnam's Oyster Stout and talked
rubbish with geeks.
Good times!
* I told the story of why MediaWiki is written
in PHP. (Magnus had
read up on PHP to make some changes to NuPedia code, and decided he
needed a project. So Phase 2 is Magnus' first ever proper PHP program
...)
I hadn't heard that before - explains a few things.
Well, it was my first PHP project as well, and it can't have been far off
from Brion's first either. But we learnt as we went along, and I'd like to
think we're PHP experts now. There's very little original Magnus/Lee code
left these days.
-- Tim Starling