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Comment by cesarb

3 hours ago

> What else would you use to power the configuration gui frontend?

Perl?

For some reason I’m not allowed to respond to the child comment so I’m putting this here:

Perl 5 was released in 1994. Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005, so Perl 5 was certainly available when they built their first products and would have been a superior choice to either PHP or Perl 4.

That's for mission-critical load-bearing infrastructure hidden behind modernized interfaces. Nobody has touched that script in 33 years.