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I recall writing CGI scripts in perl. I met some guys are work that used C and I was shocked. But not as shocked as my boss. It took them so long to deliver app
by ed_blackburn 6y ago
I recall writing CGI scripts in perl. I met some guys are work that used C and I was shocked. But not as shocked as my boss. It took them so long to deliver applications compared to cranking out perl.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoSure, that's also how PHP started. Thing is, with Perl and PHP, before mod_perl and mod_php, your script needed to be parsed for every single uncached request, easily dominating everything else, like URL parsing and process creation time. Hence natively compiled CGIs weren't such a bad idea. They're even used today a lot, with Apache/CGI uptimes measured in decades since neither Apache nor CGI binary updates require planned downtime on Unix. Its ultra-robustness is one of the reasons the concept of FaaS has become fashionable again.