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Google is not the current generation. In 1998, hardware was not fast enough to make dynamic languages feasible.
by kemiller 14y ago
Google is not the current generation. In 1998, hardware was not fast enough to make dynamic languages feasible.
- wmf 14y agoWeren't a lot of Web sites written in Perl in 1998? And there was the AOLServer/Tcl crowd, but we won't speak of that.
- kemiller 14y agoI'm not sure why that's controversial. Sure, Perl was quite popular in the CGI days, but at scale? I guess Yahoo has been using PHP for a long time. Certainly things like Ruby, and maybe Python, were not really feasible until we had faster hardware.