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Wordpress.

• agumonkey 6y ago
  it's difficult for me to link PHP as important in wordpress success
  • captn3m0 6y ago
    Having it easily installable on shared servers everywhere was a big reason behind its success.
    • agumonkey 6y ago
      this is a very faint (but true) reason, as in it's not why it helped people make wordpress in the first place
  • stanmancan 6y ago
    Can you name a business/site/project that was successful because of the language it was written in?
    • agumonkey 6y ago
      according to pg viaweb was one I can also think of nichimen mirai which was also 10 years ahead of the competition in terms of ergonomics and features and was based on symbolics S-graphics system (and I kinda believe most of the value in mirai was due to the lisp broader paradigm, you could clearly see how limited most programs were at the time, exception being maybe prisms/houdini [which was probably C based though:)]) some people also quote apl or prolog to be an extensive reason on why their product exists or has an edge