25 Years of Perl

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:09:34PM +0000, James Laver wrote:

> We take it so much for granted that you could connect to any number of different database engines with the same perl binary these days, or with any other programming language too, but really perl led the world here. This was quietly revolutionary.
> 
> How many webhosts do we think would ship several perls for several different database engines?

About as many as give you a choice of database engines.  Approximately
none.

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