Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0.0 Release packaged
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sun, 21 May 2000 06:01:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0.0 Release packaged | ||
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> Software development isn't a popularity contest, you do it right,
> or you shouldn't do it at all.
If this was always followed there would be no PHP and a lot of other neat
stuff would never see the light of day. I'm no professional programmer,
and I certainly didn't do it right when I released the first version of
PHP. There were thousands of bugs and hundreds of serious architectural
problems. It probably couldn't have been more wrong. Yet, there were a
couple of good ideas here and there and people recognized these and
started sending patches and suggestions and thus a new project or in fact
a whole new community was born.
And from your own namesake:
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
-Albert Einstein
-Rasmus