On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 08:02:05PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > > 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.
Maybe they are being economical with the truth (not sure when that phrase was invented either). More likely not knowing what they were talking about:
