@kevinbowen enjoy being an angry person, you and your cat may move on.nothing to validate your brilliance here.
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Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.@kevinbowen you shouldn't. Probably better if you don't.
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Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.@randomgeek @philsplace the generated images are just kinda going to be there, I am not a graphic artist and don't have time to make one off images for every article,
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Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.@randomgeek @philsplace been meaning to turn the author byline back on, the posts that show the wrong author is from RSS fed articles, I will work on getting the cleaned up.
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Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.
Before modern frameworks and JavaScript everywhere, Perl powered CGI scripts, forms, counters, search tools, admin panels, and the kind of text processing that made the first dynamic websites possible.
A lot of people remember Perl as a joke. History says otherwise.
Perl: The Strange Language That Built the Early Web
A deep dive into Perl’s history, its role in building the early web, and how it influenced modern programming languages, package ecosystems, and developer culture.
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