This is true, but it misses one of the points of TFA, which is that with boring tech you already know the ways it can shoot you in the foot, because lots of people have had their feet shot by it before you came along. You can learn what not to do just by looking around and seeing which sets of feet have the smoking holes in them. With exciting tech, you don't know; you get to be one of the people who discovers those things.
1. CGI
2. Python
3. Perl
As such I only use Python for scripting.
I'm not a huge fan of Ruby, but Ruby, its community, and rubinius are doing it much better.
PyPy is great, but until it gets to replace CPython it isn't something I would advise in production.
[0] https://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2002/archive/Tcl2002papers/k...
What did you press it into service for in ye old .com boom?
Similar to AOL Server and already using quite a few patterns that people seemed to only have discovered years later with Ruby On Rails, but since Portugal isn't SV no one heard of them.
All critical path routines were actually done in C.
However, eventually the platform was migrated to .NET with focus on Windows.
The founders of this company went on to found OutSystems, with the lessons taken from this attempt.
No. Moving to Haskell did give me much nicer options for concurrency and performance. Was principally about productivity (area under a curve).