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Perl was my first programming language. After more than two decades, it is still the language I feel the most efficient in. Glad to see Perl is still alive and kicking !


It was my first language, too, that I learned to write “serious” programs in. I just didn’t think a prominent modern company would choose Perl as their main language. Props to them.


Such choices always come down to personal preferences of tech founders.


I wrote my first web apps in Perl, way back in the 90's! "use CGI" anyone?


Same here. I also built a few web backends using Apache mod_perl, which was insanely fast compared to CGI.


PHP started as mod_perl app, too.


Oh yes, those were the days!




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