> They [two startup founders] find PHP/FI 2.0 to be inefficient and lacking features. In 1997 they embark on a complete rewrite of the underlying interpreter.

> They [two startup founders] find PHP/FI 2.0 to be inefficient and lacking features. In 1997 they embark on a complete rewrite of the underlying interpreter. Wild. Doing something like this today would be considered so tangential and risky.