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What Catalyzed Matts Desire to Actually Start Writing WordPress in PHP

At the time, Matt was programming mostly in Pearl, a little bit in Python, but when he came across how PHP worked, he really wanted to dive in more. It was a language that was easy to read and to understand. Matt started looking for a blogging software, written in PHP.

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Matt Mullenweg, Founder of WordPress ·

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