1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo
dd444fgdfg 3 years ago [ - ]
I used Perl a lot mid-90s, it's an amazing language. I don't really understand how it fell away from the internet while something like the abomination that is PHP succeeded. Just goes to show that the better solutions aren't always the winner.
xnx 3 years ago [ - ]
For small/non-corporate developers, the common availability of mod_php in shared hosting setups was the main factor.
naikrovek 3 years ago [ - ]
Well anyone looking at Python and Perl side-by-side is gonna pick Python, and that's what happened. PHP had relatively little to do with it.
source: I worked at Yahoo in the early 2000s and I watched it happen.
throwaway9870 3 years ago [ - ]