On 11/19/2012 06:03 PM, andrew-per...@mail.black1.org.uk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:58:51PM +0000, Tom Hukins wrote:
Perl was once described as "the duct tape that hold the Internet
together". As I recall this phrase comes from the webmaster of
Tried looking in the OED and that doesnt shed any light.
But following amused me
1995 Economist 1 July The..servers that make up the most
popular part of the Internet are often written in Perl, and
virtually all Web-based information exchanges are handled with the
language.
that is bizarre. they must be conflating cgi/perl apps with the web
servers themselves. and no way did 100% of the web exchange run on perl.
i can't guess percentage but c was in heavy use for crawlers and such.
but this is not a quote from a technical source so it can be just
amusing anyway.
uri
