In 2001, I wrote a tag balancer (for HTML input, it also did some rudimentary XSS filtering) in PHP and then translated it to Cold Fusion (I was applying for a CF job and figured it might be useful to actually learn it). I believe that both variations are still running, the CF version on Metafilter, and the PHP version was used in B2, which became WordPress. A few years ago, I was asked by the WP team to relicense th…
> Perhaps most notable, is that I wrote it w/o having taken a compilers class or having much (any) understanding of stack-based parsing, but it still lives on, so I guess it was good enough to get the job done.
Isn't that the story of PHP itself, too?