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by balthigor 1383 days ago
PERL was the duct tape of the early Internet. Remember CGI scripts in PERL on FreeBSD? Good Times.
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flukus 1383 days ago
I deal with so many over complicated enterprise solutions that would be much better with this level of abstraction.

CGI scripts are basically FaaS on your own machines.

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jandrese 1383 days ago
Amazon Lambda is basically just CGI scripts hiding behind fancy math words.
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cutler 1383 days ago
Don't forget Matt's Script Archive (http://www.scriptarchive.com).
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