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by adriangrigore 780 days ago
I also jokingly refer to https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Provider/ShellScript.html as the first version of my static site generator https://mkws.sh/
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"If you know the perl language, then that is a powerful (if otherwise incomprehensible) language with which to hack together a server."

Perl was the first language I wrote dynamic websites in around ~1993 so this made me laugh.

Things have sure gotten better now. :D