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by jacobgorm 204 days ago
PHP and Python did. PHP so much better for web development, and especially faster due to being linked with the web server instead of in cgi-bin, and python by being a much cleaner and easier to use scripting language for batch jobs etc.

I still have nightmares about the time we were trying to write the server part of a distributed filesystem (the precursor to Lustre) in Perl.