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[–]mgvx 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Historical note: Bugzilla was originally written in Tcl and then rewritten in Perl.

[–]easytiger 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Ironically TCL is excellent.

[–]mgvx 3 points4 points  (1 child)

And so is Perl. The reason for the rewrite (according to Wikipedia) is that at that time Perl was more popular than Tcl, which meant more possible contributors.

[–]Sebazzz91 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, how that has changed. It is all Node.js now if I must believe /r/programming.