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by treeman79 1417 days ago
Alt to php at that point in time was usually Perl.

Don’t think Facebook would have succeeded with Perl.
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nequo 1417 days ago
What about Perl would have made Facebook fail? I don't particularly like Perl but I'm curious.
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fabianhjr 1417 days ago
You don't get it, Facebook wasn't just a CRUD from the start and had some niche programming language needs. /s

:P

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icedchai 1417 days ago
Is there a reason Apache w/mod_perl wouldn't have worked?
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