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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by vesak on Sunday September 03, 2017 @09:20AM (#15161278)
Or perhaps he should be in prison for being partially responsible for some of the worst security breaches in the industry.
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by DonHopkins on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:43AM (#15161642)
"PHP can do anything, what about some ssh?" -Mark Karpelès

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https://web.archive.org/web/20100701145902/http://blog.magic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s

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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by vesak on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:32PM (#15163012)
Indeed. I realize the guy I answered to was probably just trolling, but it was very effective. To suggest that Rasmus should get academic praise for PHP is highly insulting.
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by grzm on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:36PM (#15163028)
There's significant daylight between

- someone should receive an award

- someone has had a large impact

- someone should go to prison

Countering the first with the third isn't very constructive, particularly as you note "I realize the guy I answered to was probably just trolling." It just further degrades the conversation.

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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by DonHopkins on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:14PM (#15164248)
Mark Karpelès's crappy PHP code full of gaping security holes lost many people a hell of a lot of money ($450 million), and earned him a year in prison.

http://themerkle.com/mark-karpeles-twitter/

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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by jsjohnst on Monday September 04, 2017 @12:07PM (#15169096)
That's a leap.. The year in prison was related to embezzling charges, not the collapse of Mt. Gox due to his "crappy PHP code full of gaping security holes".
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by colejohnson66 on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:17AM (#15161524)
Should we put the Federal Reserve in prison for printing money used in crime?
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by vesak on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:28PM (#15162993)
No, but should we give it the Nobel Prize for it?
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Re:Q&A: PHP Creator Rasmus Lerdorf (2002) by DonHopkins on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:02PM (#15164194)
Right, it's insulting to the memory of Turing to suggest giving a prize named after him to Rasmus Lerdorf.

How about the Thomas Midgley award, for having "had more impact on the internet than any other single organism in Earth's history"?

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley

Thomas Midgley (born 18 May 1889; died 2 November 1944), was an American inventor. His two most famous inventions are both now banned because they are dangerous for the world environment: the use of lead in petrol (gasoline) and the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigerators. Midgley was accidentally killed by something he was inventing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Legacy

Midgley's legacy has been scarred by the negative environmental impact of some of his innovations. His work led to the release of large quantities of lead into the atmosphere as a result of the large-scale combustion of leaded gasoline all over the world. High atmospheric lead levels have been linked with serious long-term health problems from childhood, including neurological impairment, and with increased levels of violence and criminality in cities.

Thomas Midgley Jr. died three decades before the ozone-depleting and greenhouse gas effects of CFCs in the atmosphere became widely known. Bill Bryson remarked that Midgley possessed "an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny." J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, opined that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

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