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I 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 use
by icedchai 4y ago
I 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.