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by tptacek
3350 days ago
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In 1997, Perl was a "scripting language". For context: ArsDigita was one of the pioneers in building database-backed websites with things other than C and C++ --- ACS, in Tcl --- and that was roughly the same time period. This is the world Paul Graham was talking about in "Beating The Averages" --- actually, he was talking about a time ~4-5 years later, when the industry mainstream was C/C++ and Java. You get my point, I'm sure. Today it would be pretty silly to invent whole new programming language just to get an I/O loop and some helper functions. In 1997, people did that. |
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