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yup, that's how we used to do it in 90s, as long as code is compiled it has a fairly decent performances. Downside is that debugging is far harder than with the
by ivanhoe 6y ago
yup, that's how we used to do it in 90s, as long as code is compiled it has a fairly decent performances. Downside is that debugging is far harder than with the scripting languages.
- Frondo 6y agoHeh, that takes me back! In 1994, I was a high schooler volunteering at a famous west coast science museum (it was either that or work at Taco Bell, thanks dad), and one of my tasks was to make a searchable employee directory... I don't remember if there was any other option on the server we had, but I had to write that sucker in C! Reading and parsing a .csv file, handling search options, working as a CGI program, what a pain, especially for a dumb high schooler like me!