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Re:Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the ... by mooreds on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:00PM (#19239660)
Twenty years ago I would have prototyped the solution in perl as an Apache module and then rewritten the slow hot spots in c.

But I don't know what their hardware constraints weredit person => perl

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Re:Remembering a Programming Language That Helped Shape the ... by a-dub on Sunday February 24, 2019 @03:03PM (#19240287)
My guess is that it actually looked a lot like that, except the mod_perl app was actually a homegrown template engine using their homegrown template language which they then called "Context".

That was a common pattern back then.

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