@Ashurbanipal @fedilist Started off as blogging software, but is basically the Rails of PHP: in theory, people might write PHP programs that do not sit on top of Wordpress, but this is only theoretical.

> gay nerd from washington

A limey and a Texan, it looks like:

> Mike Little (born 12 May 1962) is an English web developer and writer.
> Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer. [...] Mullenweg was born and raised in Houston, Texas. His father, Chuck, was a computer programmer. Mullenweg was raised Catholic.

Most people doing PHP are not the real nerds. Here is a chart, it should help.
java_c_php_ruby.jpe