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PERL was the duct tape of the early Internet. Remember CGI scripts in PERL on FreeBSD? Good Times.

I deal with so many over complicated enterprise solutions that would be much better with this level of abstraction.

CGI scripts are basically FaaS on your own machines.

Amazon Lambda is basically just CGI scripts hiding behind fancy math words.

Don't forget Matt's Script Archive (http://www.scriptarchive.com).