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I'm not really familiar with how things were ~20 years ago, but I still believe that creating a language to use internally just for this is overkill. Dynamic ad
by scegit 8y ago
I'm not really familiar with how things were ~20 years ago, but I still believe that creating a language to use internally just for this is overkill. Dynamic ads, weather reports ... etc. are not that difficult they could have probably done it in C (maybe a custom somewhat advanced template engine?) with much less effort.
- mooreds 8y agoTwenty years ago I would have prototyped the solution in perl as an Apache module and then rewritten the slow hot spots in c. But I don't know what their hardware constraints weredit person => perl
- a-dub 8y agoMy guess is that it actually looked a lot like that, except the mod_perl app was actually a homegrown template engine using their homegrown template language which they then called "Context". That was a common pattern back then.
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- scott_s 8y agoI think you are underestimating how novel those things were 20 years ago. The NYT has been ahead-of-the-curve when it comes to the sophistication of their webpage for about that long. Perhaps their language helped.
- scegit 8y agoIt is pretty cool that they created their own language, but I was not sure if they really needed to do that. I guess it was worth it back then. Looking at their website in 2002[0] it is pretty impressive indeed. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20020209001700/https://www.nytimes.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020209001700/https://www.nytim...