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Delicious was written in Perl (Mason) and ported to PHP at Yahoo. The language change had nothing to do with the horrible management and lack of product vision

Delicious was written in Perl (Mason) and ported to PHP at Yahoo. The language change had nothing to do with the horrible management and lack of product vision at Yahoo, though.

joshu 9y ago
This is actually pretty accurate. There was a backend written in Erlang and some other bullshit that also delayed things by years.
- lmorchard 9y ago
  Erlang makes me break out in facial twitches to this day.