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		treeman79 on July 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Build Unix, Not Uber Alt to php at that point in time was usually Perl. Don’t think Facebook would have succeeded with Perl.

nequo on July 30, 2022 | [–]

What about Perl would have made Facebook fail? I don't particularly like Perl but I'm curious.

fabianhjr on July 30, 2022 | | [–]

You don't get it, Facebook wasn't just a CRUD from the start and had some niche programming language needs. /s

:P

icedchai on July 30, 2022 | [–]

Is there a reason Apache w/mod_perl wouldn't have worked?

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