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So you're saying those three languages are so defective that they would have killed the startups that used them?

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No, not at all. Do you think Facebook would have gone so far into implementing all the current features since the launch if the whole site was written in Perl? Same thing with YouTube and Twitter...

Um, sorry, was that intended as a clarification? You merely repeated your original question.

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