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April 10, 2026
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"PHP 8 is significantly better because it contains a lot less of my code."
"I did not develop the PHP we know today. Dozens, if not hundreds of people, developed PHP. I was simply the first developer."
"I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems."
"I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code."
"PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?"
"I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers."
"We have things like protected properties. We have abstract methods. We have all this stuff that your computer science teacher told you you should be using. I don't care about this crap at all."
"There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming."
"I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests."
"I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable."
"I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way."
"For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)"
"I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems."
"PHP is rarely the bottleneck."
"Ugly problems often require ugly solutions. Solving an ugly problem in a pure manner is bloody hard."
"PHP is just a hammer. Nobody has ever gotten rich making hammers."
"Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing mechanism was strlen()."
"If eval() is the answer, you're almost certainly asking the wrong question."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.