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perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing. folks forget that the big web 2.0 innovation was a proliferation of ajax and related technologie
by yV2n2E 12y ago
perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing. folks forget that the big web 2.0 innovation was a proliferation of ajax and related technologies, which was the precursor to webapps, iPhone ecosystem, etc.
- nemo 12y ago"perl lost because it was unable to do asynchronous processing" That's not really true in two senses: 1) If you're just talking about AJAX request handlers, those are trivial to implement in Perl (I put together a number of them). If you're talking about real async processing in an app, POE/threads/etc. can handle async processing readily. 2) People moved off Perl/chose to adopt different langs. for many reasons but async was very rarely one of them.