On 20 Nov 2012, at 09:09, Jacqui Caren <jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> I know Tim will not blow his own trumpet but ... > One of the biggies was and is DBI. We take it so much for granted that you could connect to any number of different database engines with the same perl binary these days, or with any other programming language too, but really perl led the world here. This was quietly revolutionary. How many webhosts do we think would ship several perls for several different database engines? /j