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You'd be scarily surprised just how much telecommunications runs on Perl5 ranging around the ~150GB level. I had my stint at an ISP that worked with around 40
by crankylinuxuser 9y ago
You'd be scarily surprised just how much telecommunications runs on Perl5 ranging around the ~150GB level.
I had my stint at an ISP that worked with around 40 state level and national orgs. I saw the underbelly of how things work, and its frankly scary.
- gpvos 9y agoNothing wrong with Perl5 though.
- crankylinuxuser 9y agoThere is when much of the code was "write once, read never". There's more than a a few dozen MB blobs of dense perl5 code that we had no clue what it actually did, and was told not to touch it, lest many things break. I had to end up touching one of them, because of things breaking with that subsystem and the new ticketing system that was being implemented. It had the wonderful line database_user = root database_password = [current mysql root password] Lest to say, I no longer work there.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoEvery time I write some crap code at work, someone on HN tells a story about such horrors that I no longer feel bad. Thanks for making my day better :).