The PHP Language Specification

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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