[TAG] More spam than content?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (jimregan at o2.ie):

> Ah. I thought it was horror at the very idea of doing something like 
> that. Well, I wouldn't rate PHP too highly as a language, but back when 
> I did web design it was part of the spec on enough jobs that I stuck to 
> it. Ruby looks nice, but it wouldn't have been an option back then, as 
> too much of the stuff I had to do was for sites hosted on Cobalt RaQs, 
> which didn't come with a compiler, so I was stuck with what came with 
> the box - PHP or Perl - I still get nightmares about the time I had to 
> tamper with Sendmail - the box didn't have the M4 files (probably didn't 
> have M4, for that matter). 

The mere fact that distros for Cobalt RaQ and Qube hosts were perenially
obsolete, underequipped, and unmaintainable didn't actually make them
_completely_ useless:  If nothing else, they made dandy honeypots.  ;->