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I used Perl a lot mid-90s, it's an amazing language. I don't really understand how it fell away from the internet while something like the abomination that is P
by dd444fgdfg 5y ago
I used Perl a lot mid-90s, it's an amazing language. I don't really understand how it fell away from the internet while something like the abomination that is PHP succeeded. Just goes to show that the better solutions aren't always the winner.
- naikrovek 5y agoWell anyone looking at Python and Perl side-by-side is gonna pick Python, and that's what happened. PHP had relatively little to do with it. source: I worked at Yahoo in the early 2000s and I watched it happen.
- xnx 5y agoFor small/non-corporate developers, the common availability of mod_php in shared hosting setups was the main factor.
- dd444fgdfg 5y agosure, but "back in the day", Perl was like that. Every hosting provider used to have perl cgi scripts as their default solution