> The Perl community was too unfocused on the web. That's a fairly ridiculous claim. Perl CGI had all the momentum. It had plenty of forums. I repeat: PHP w

> The Perl community was too unfocused on the web. That's a fairly ridiculous claim. Perl CGI had all the momentum. It had plenty of forums. I repeat: PHP won because as the internet grew and compile-at-run CGI was no longer sufficiently scalable mod_php was more viable than mod_perl or fastcgi.