After I first got online in 1995, I had noticed that Perl was this thing that everyone was using to create dynamic HTTP server behavior. I ended up using what

After I first got online in 1995, I had noticed that Perl was this thing that everyone was using to create dynamic HTTP server behavior. I ended up using what I knew instead: Turbo Pascal + some oddball "wincgi" interface. Later I caved and started using Perl, since everyone else was using it. It was a pretty weird experience. I did my first paid "consulting", for a company from the tiny place where I grew up, building a "web app" using Perl. This happened during the first year of university studies. I got paid $12/hour. That was so much money to me, back then! (I was like 18 or 19.) This experience is where I grew to hate Perl and learned to love more structured languages. A year later in 1997, I ended up working full-time with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language) instead. This was essentially a precursor of Dart.