On 13/09/11 14:56, David Gerard wrote:
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I want Magnus to tell the story of just why it's
in PHP. Possibly in
section 2 of that page ;-)
Because wikipedia used UseMode wiki written in Perl which IMO is worse
than PHP.
Python, ruby etc were not that popular at that time and PHP was becoming
the de facto web language. He could have used ASP or ColdFusion though. :-)
Historical notes:
- python2 was released in 2001 IIRC.
- ruby was only known in Japan and was made known to occidental with
Ruby on Rails (2004-2005?).
yet, it would be great to have his own explanation :b
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Ashar Voultoiz