I guess I do know the ways in which CGI-based web applications shoot me in the foot because I wrote them in Python and Perl. Said knowledge is why I no longer use:
1. CGI
2. Python
3. Perl
1. CGI
2. Python
3. Perl
No. Moving to Haskell did give me much nicer options for concurrency and performance. Was principally about productivity (area under a curve).
As such I only use Python for scripting.
[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.
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.