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> Be sure to view this through the lens of 2002 Those were definitely interesting times. I'd say that Perl was a little bit more generalist, though, it was not
by paganel 6y ago
> Be sure to view this through the lens of 2002
Those were definitely interesting times. I'd say that Perl was a little bit more generalist, though, it was not exactly down at the PHP level but was what "serious" websites were using (I say that as a guy who started to learn Python in 2003 because I was too afraid to start and learn Perl).
Back to the post, I wonder if reddit would have still been picked by YC if it hadn't been originally written in Lisp (this I think was late 2004, early 2005?). I'm sure the whole story is written somewhere in a blog-post/dedicated reddit thread but I'm too lazy to check right now.