I think anyone who shares Hasin's views are being too demanding bordering on psychotic. I mean seriously... I consider myself an above average developer and I probably could not, on the spot, recite PHP's history in its totality. Same for Perl, Java, C, C++, Ruby, Erlang, Javascript, Cobol and any other language I've gotten around to learning (even that VB thing).
I am such a bad developer - please don't hire me because I'm not a history buff, and ergo I am obviously not worthy even if my skills are demonstrable and more than sufficient to do the job.
I will never ask who invented PHP of a candidate. I would hire them for demonstrating skill, not historical general knowledge for the annual pub quiz ;).
P.S. My blog was one of those offline recently. Back up now assuming the DNS has fully resolved globally over the weekend.
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