Rasmus Lerdorf, the Danish creator of the PHP programming language, recently tweeted the following bit of hubris.
For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another – Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)
That sounds like something that DHH would say, who also happens to be a Danish programmer. In one hand he did invent a new programming language, in the other it was PHP. In one hand he made web programming accessible to thousands of developer, in the other hand the code produced by most of these developers is unreadable and unmanageable.
Of course, a great many folks took the troll bait and commented on the validity of the tweet. My favorite comment was from
Entropy on Reddit.
Kenny G plays the saxophone better than I do, but that provides little solace for his countless victims.
I was not able to find additional background to this tweet, but I can only imagine he tweeted it in good fun, and not in my milkshake brings all the developers to the yard, and their like, it’s better than yours.
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