InfoWorld: What is Zend’s role in the development of the PHP scripting language?
Gutmans: We’re contributors to the language and the language implementation itself. So, kind of the JVM [Java Virtual Machine] of PHP is called the Zend Engine, and that was originally developed by [Zend Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer] Zeev Suraski and myself in 1998.
InfoWorld: Who is the founder of PHP?
Gutmans: Rasmus Lerdorf. He wrote the original version. And then in 1997 we wrote PHP 3. We helped write that. And then the big rewrite came about a year or two later, which was PHP 4 and the Zend Engine.
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