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A surprisingly huge amount of the Amazon.com codebase is Perl 5. The various back-ends are primarily in Java, but most front-end code is Perl/Mason.
by ryanianian 9y ago
A surprisingly huge amount of the Amazon.com codebase is Perl 5. The various back-ends are primarily in Java, but most front-end code is Perl/Mason.
- autarch 9y agoWow! Still? As one of the primary maintainers of Mason for many years I enjoyed telling non-technical friends that they used my work every time they went to Amazon. But I'd kind of assumed that was no longer the case these days. Apparently I can keep telling them the same thing!
- ryanianian 9y agoMason is great. Thanks for your work! They are phasing it out but very slowly. It'll probably be around forever on internal tools.
- autarch 9y agoCool, I'm glad it's still helping people. For the record, I was not the creator of the package. That was Jon Swartz. I did a lot of work on it for quite a few years in the early 2000s and maintained it for quite some time after that.