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by alexhutcheson 1908 days ago
I didn’t count CTAN because Tex isn’t a general-purpose programming language, and so wasn’t competing for the same use-cases.

FastCGI wasn’t available for Apache until ~2004, so having something “akin to FastCGI” was actually a significant advantage until then. mod_perl was strictly more powerful, but that power made it inappropriate for use in a shared hosting environment, which limited Perl’s addressable market.