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Interesting that he dismissed interpreted languages for non-trivial code, as if it were obvious that the performance wouldn't be good enough. But wasn't Perl al
by mwcampbell 12y ago
Interesting that he dismissed interpreted languages for non-trivial code, as if it were obvious that the performance wouldn't be good enough. But wasn't Perl already being used for CGI scripts in 1996?
- kevinchen 12y agoI'm sure you could make it work, but back then fewer engineer-hours had gone into making interpreted languages fast, and hardware was slower. It was also common to run a website on one machine. Tangentially related: https://twitter.com/GregB/status/27244912213 https://twitter.com/GregB/status/27244912213 "> @spolsky: Digg: 200MM page views, 500 servers. Stack Overflow: 60MM page views, 5 servers. What am I missing? << That's the PHP factor"
- pjmlp 12y agoYes and it was a pain. I learned never ever again to use interpreted languages for anything else other than shell scripting.