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But what happens if a company chooses truly the worst language. Like PHP? Oh, right. That was Facebook. They ALSO ran circles around their competitors and crus
by paulsutter 4y ago
But what happens if a company chooses truly the worst language. Like PHP?
Oh, right. That was Facebook. They ALSO ran circles around their competitors and crushed them. I hear they are worth /even more/ than Viaweb!
Great PHP story:
> Dustin was like, 'Hey, I want to help out"
> Zuckerberg told Moskovitz, "That's pretty cool. But you don't know any PHP."
> "That weekend he went home, bought the book 'PERL for Dummies,' came back, and was like, 'OK, I'm ready to go,'" Zuck said, and told him, "The site's written in PHP, not PERL, dude."
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFs9UgOAlE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFFs9UgOAlE
- thebigspacefuck 4y agoPHP seems like it would be a reasonable choice in early 2004. Ruby on Rails wasn’t out yet and LAMP was a very common stack. The competition MySpace was originally using Perl which nobody understood so they had to rewrite it in ColdFusion.