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Apparently PayPal isn't in technologically fantastic shape either. Word on the street is that they still have their core offering written in C using a CGI inter

Apparently PayPal isn't in technologically fantastic shape either. Word on the street is that they still have their core offering written in C using a CGI interface.

jff 16y ago
C? I guess that only puts them 30 years ahead of the banks, then...
Shorel 16y ago
With good unit testing C is very robust and also much cheaper in hardware footprint.
- rbranson 16y ago
  I wasn't as much bashing C as I was the use of CGI. Most of the time when C is paired with CGI it's a pretty good indication that the code is chock full of memory leaks.
  - a-priori 16y ago
    If you are using CGI, then those memory leaks will be short lived, limited to one request.
    - rubashov 16y ago
      Fork is still expensive. It is not sane to fork per request.