[zackham]

Anyone else notice they were writing PHP and said it was Perl?

Great movie, though. Amazing to see a popular film come out and do a decent job of portraying a software guy.

[trustfundbaby]

I think you're mistaken.

The part he talks about Perl is when he's writing utility code to download the pictures he used to build his first hit website at Harvard.

Correct me if I'm wrong though.

[drags]

The code on the screen in the utility code scene appeared to be PHP, given that every variable began with a $.

[rmc00]

FWIW, PERL variables start with $ too, see http://www.cgi101.com/class/ch2/text.html. It looked like PERL to me.