On 13/09/11 14:56, David Gerard wrote: <snip> > I want Magnus to tell the story of just why it's in PHP. Possibly in > section 2 of that page ;-)
Because wikipedia used UseMode wiki written in Perl which IMO is worse than PHP. Python, ruby etc were not that popular at that time and PHP was becoming the de facto web language. He could have used ASP or ColdFusion though. :-) Historical notes: - python2 was released in 2001 IIRC. - ruby was only known in Japan and was made known to occidental with Ruby on Rails (2004-2005?). yet, it would be great to have his own explanation :b -- Ashar Voultoiz _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
