[kizer]

Why would anyone build something like that in Perl? I could only see it being done “just because”. Wasn’t Perl specifically designed for the quickly code it once and not change it again case?

[tempest_]

Perl was python before python was python, and booking.com is old.

[mrich]

On the server it was the predecessor to Node.js, back when the alternative was a C program :)

[nebula8804]

I thought the Netherlands was weird in that there is a large group of Perl programmers who never decided to move on. It is its own ecosystem

Its kind of like how Japan stayed on flip phones for forever and even bolted on smartphone features to their flip phones.

[tantalor]

Perl was the best/fastest way to write web applications (think FastCGI, mod_perl) before PHP stole that crown in late 90s.