[Keloran]

whilst I don't disagree with your first part of that statement,

it would have been very difficult for him to have been a PHP programmer before being C programmer, since he invented PHP by writing it in C, which is why most PHP functions are almost exact syntax as C

[Jedd]

Well yes, that was part of my point - he used his expertise in C to make PHP (which, if you're old enough, you remember debugging with gdb).