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kemiller
on May 16, 2012
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The love and hate of Node.js
Google is not the current generation. In 1998, hardware was not fast enough to make dynamic languages feasible.
wmf
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Weren't a lot of Web sites written in Perl in 1998? And there was the AOLServer/Tcl crowd, but we won't speak of that.
kemiller
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I'm not sure why that's controversial. Sure, Perl was quite popular in the CGI days, but at scale? I guess Yahoo has been using PHP for a long time. Certainly things like Ruby, and maybe Python, were not really feasible until we had faster hardware.
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