COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Rasmus Lerdorf

1968 - Today

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Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He co-authored and inspired the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participating in the development of later versions led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead (who later created blo.gs), Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans, and Zeev Suraski. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rasmus Lerdorf has received more than 627,222 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Rasmus Lerdorf is the 113th most popular computer scientist (down from 81st in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Greenland (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Computer Scientist.

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  • 630k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Rasmus Lerdorf has had the most page views in the with 52,773 views, followed by Spanish (7,037), and Russian (6,326). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (269.64%), Malagasy (123.28%), and Hindi (55.05%)

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rasmus Lerdorf ranks 113 out of 245. Before him are Kristen Nygaard, Eugene Kaspersky, John Hopcroft, Robert Taylor, David A. Huffman, and Liu Gang. After him are Scott Fahlman, Peter Norton, Kenneth E. Iverson, Kateryna Yushchenko, Shafi Goldwasser, and Robert Fano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Rasmus Lerdorf ranks 161. Before him are Irina Privalova, Mari Kiviniemi, Oliver Masucci, Eddie Marsan, Ståle Solbakken, and Doina Ignat. After him are Stephan Beckenbauer, Phil Anselmo, Hwang Sun-hong, Juan Orlando Hernández, Karl Wendlinger, and Chayanne.

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In Greenland

Among people born in Greenland, Rasmus Lerdorf ranks 5 out of 16. Before him are Knud Rasmussen (1879), Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875), Hans Enoksen (1956), and Jonathan Motzfeldt (1938). After him are Kim Kielsen (1966), Jesper Grønkjær (1977), Kuupik Kleist (1958), Thue Christiansen (1940), Lars-Emil Johansen (1946), Aleqa Hammond (1965), and Naja Marie Aidt (1963).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Greenland

Among computer scientists born in Greenland, Rasmus Lerdorf ranks 1. 

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