On 07/04/2008, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Yeah. It's not like PHP is difficult to start on. The hard part of MediaWiki programming is, I expect, much more a matter of how to extract the best performance from MySQL on limited hardware with huge demands than it is of anything to do with PHP.
- d.