lerdorf seems like quite an understated guy from what I've seen of videos of him talking on youtube. He doesn't seem to want to influence anybody, clearly a sma

lerdorf seems like quite an understated guy from what I've seen of videos of him talking on youtube. He doesn't seem to want to influence anybody, clearly a smart guy but more of a regular "working class" developer who accidentally became a language inventor. I think he's said a few times on the record that he didn't really know anything about language design when he invented PHP.