Hacker News Reader

Alt to php at that point in time was usually Perl.

Don’t think Facebook would have succeeded with Perl.

What about Perl would have made Facebook fail? I don't particularly like Perl but I'm curious.

You don't get it, Facebook wasn't just a CRUD from the start and had some niche programming language needs. /s

:P

Is there a reason Apache w/mod_perl wouldn't have worked?