Comment by seanhunter
4 hours ago
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.
When discussing programming languages, you need to take into consideration how easy it is to find developers with experience on a certain language.
Sure, you can do web apps in Perl with Catalyst or other frameworks, but the PHP developers are easier to find.
And then, after you develop entire GUIs in a language, it is a herculean effort to port that to another.
And lastly, JavaScript has its own issues too.