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By 1996 people were building commercial web stores in Python. For example, see "The Real World Case Study: Python in a Commercial Environment" at https://legacy
by eesmith 4y ago
By 1996 people were building commercial web stores in Python. For example, see "The Real World Case Study: Python in a Commercial Environment" at https://legacy.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/stein.ps https://legacy.python.org/workshops/1997-10/proceedings/stei... .
- icedchai 4y agoDon't forget about Perl!
- eesmith 4y agoI didn't want to get involved in what "meaningful marketshare" means with respect to Perl. In the same vein, AOLServer (ca. 1995) used multithreaded Tcl, and Tcl is also still around.
- icedchai 4y agoI remember that era, and Perl CGI scripts were everywhere. Tcl was pretty niche. I used it for some personal projects, but never ran into any web stuff that used it.
- Groxx 4y ago1995 is when CPAN started (the first "real" module repository, and the unambiguous best one for a very long time), and yeah - Perl was enormously popular then and especially shortly after for "it's not bash and it's not C" purposes. PHP was still new and WordPress didn't yet exist, and Perl was (and is) consistently beating it by a wide margin in performance. For all the code-golf insanity that Perl supports, it's an extremely effective language with a truly stunning degree of both flexibility and performance.