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this is what I was thinking too. maybe this explains why it was written in PHP? :)
by rgbrenner 14y ago
this is what I was thinking too. maybe this explains why it was written in PHP? :)
- mseebach 14y agoNo. I have no numbers, but I'd say we're looking at 80-90% of all websites written in dorm rooms in 2003 were written in PHP. Most of the rest in classic ASP (which was barely 'classic' yet in 2003). For scale, Rails was released in June 2004, four months after Facebook's launch.
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- subsystem 14y agoPython was even seen as esoteric back then. http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html