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One esoteric library that was not mainstream. It's completely unrelated (and utterly incompatible) to Microsoft's ASP. I'm not even sure why you'd bother to b
by wvenable 7y ago
One esoteric library that was not mainstream. It's completely unrelated (and utterly incompatible) to Microsoft's ASP. I'm not even sure why you'd bother to bring it up -- what point does this make?
- pjmlp 7y agoThat PHP only got where it is today because of cheap hosting, down to the level of free beer, nothing more.
- wvenable 7y agoThat doesn't explain how it beat a number of other technologies at the time -- including well established ones, like Perl.
- pjmlp 7y agoSure it does, cheap hosting. Many ISP only offered Perl with mod_perl, or telnet/cgi access, in the more expensive variants. The cheapest of them all was PHP with files being dumped via FTP upload.