Who is the Father of PHP?

Rasmus Lerdorf is known as the father of PHP.

Here are some quick facts about Rasmus Lerdorf:

Birth	22 November 1968
Death	–
Alma mater	University of Waterloo
Occupation	Distinguished Engineer at Etsy
Birth Place	Qeqertarsuaq (prev. Godhavn), Greenland

Rasmus Lerdorf — Father of PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf is the father of PHP, a server-side scripting language that is used to create dynamic web pages.

He developed PHP in 1994 while working at Netscape Communications Corporation, and he continues to work on the project today.

Lerdorf has also created other open source software projects, such as the Apache HTTP Server and the mod_rewrite module for Apache.

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