Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 06/04/2008, David Gerard dgerard@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