The PHP Language Specification (Changelog Interviews #129)

Adam and Jerod talk with Sara Golemon about her work at Facebook, The PHP Language Specification, and making PHP awesome.

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Featuring:

• Sara Goleman – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Facebook’s HipHop leaves PHPers dancing - The Changelog


• HHVM


• php.standards: Specification live on git.php.net


• About CC0 — “No Rights Reserved” - Creative Commons


• php.internals: Re: PHP Language Specification
  
  CC0 license


• Announcing a specification for PHP « HHVM


• RexJaeschke (Rex Jaeschke)


• nikic (Nikita Popov)


• Extending and Embedding PHP: Sara Golemon: 9780672327049: Amazon.com: Books


• Hack


• PHP: rfc:abstract_syntax_tree


• PHP: rfc:switch.default.multiple


• sgolemon/libssh2


• @ffffux: Open Source Pro Tip: non-coding contributors are awesome…


• Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog

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