Proper noun (person)
    
  
    Rasmus Lerdorf  
          
      
          
      
      
   
  
                  
                            
              
  
                  
                            
              
  
    
        (born November 22, 1968) Danish inventor of the PHP programming language, which was used to build some of the world's most popular websites, including: Facebook, WordPress, Moodle, and Wikipedia        
          
      
          
      
      
    
  
      Rasmus Lerdorf is known for inflaming object-oriented gurus by stating that procedural code is sometimes a better and faster approach for speed and scalability on the web.