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johnchristopher
on July 21, 2019
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What Were CGI Scripts?
When PHP used to mean "Powerful Heavenly Perl".
Rumor had it the first version was written in Perl.
darrenf
on July 21, 2019
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No, it was Personal HomePage tools. It was written in C. Rasmus even explicitly said you didn't need Perl when he first announced it on Usenet, here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.infosystems.www.a...
johnchristopher
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I know, that's why I used the word `rumor`. Powerful Heavenly Perl was a geek joke (like PlentyofHorsePower).
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Rumor had it the first version was written in Perl.