The reason why I qualified my above statement with "almost felt like" is because I know it's wrong, it just feels that way sometimes.
A stupid little .com startup wannabe group that I ran in high school (after AL's SoftWare, with mostly the same people on board) called "ThinkTank Online Services" (TTOS) made this mistake. We wanted to have strong server-side assets that we can later resell, and dynamic languages weren't as good / scalable back then, so we've decided to do everything with C/C++ CGI. Baaad idea. We should have at least prototyped in perl first, but we didn't. Really slowed us down, and the project never amounted to anything functional...