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2010

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

by 1 other
"1995 - At a neighborhood Italian restaurant Rasmus Lerdorf realizes that his plate of spaghetti is an excellent model for understanding both the World Wide Web and that web applications should mimic their medium. On the back of his napkin he designs Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta (PHP). PHP documentation remains on that napkin to this day."

2005

Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb

by 9 others (via)
paradoxically enough, good programmers need to be both lazy and dumb