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		simonw on Oct 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Play framework for Java - a radical rethink of Jav... The Web I fell in love with is the Web of URLs that respond to a GET request with a page full of HTML.

kls on Oct 23, 2009 [–]

I liked it when we figured our how to POST to a C application and then Perl came along and ruined the party. I had to learn a new language just to keep doing CGI. After that, no one but yahoo would hire a CGI C developer.

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