On 20 Nov 2012, at 16:30, Abigail <abig...@abigail.be> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:22:14AM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: >> On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, Dave Cross wrote: >>> Quoting Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com>: >>> >>>> in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but >>>> they helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but >>>> some actually learned perl. >>> >>> Yes. I'm well aware of the effects of Matt's scripts. In fact I think I >>> may have already mentioned that in this very discussion. >>> >> >> you did but i didn't see that before i posted. the number of posts about >> matt's crap on usenet was enormous. it took the community way too long >> to rewrite them in clean safe code. that archive is now also forgotten >> as no one seems to mention them in the age of modern perl and such. > > > That's because the community missed something that the overwhelming > majority still seems to miss: easy deployment of ready to use applications. > > Matt got that part right.
As did PHP. And the rest is history.