Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer and the original creator of the popular scripting language PHP. He is widely regarded as the "Father of PHP" and is credited with laying the foundations for the language\'s widespread use in web development. Lerd
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Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He co-authored and inspired the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participating in the development of later versions led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead, Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans, and Zeev Suraski. He continues to contribute to the project.