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I'd feel sorry for anyone who hacked booking.com, they'd end up trying to decipher several petabytes of email data saying basically, "stop sending me hotel offe
by andygrd 5y ago
I'd feel sorry for anyone who hacked booking.com, they'd end up trying to decipher several petabytes of email data saying basically, "stop sending me hotel offers in Outer Mongolia!"
- mrich 5y agoWorse still, they would have to read Perl code :)
- iso1210 5y agoSo you're saying the encrypt their code?
- OneTimePetes 5y agoRevenge of the Reg/"(?>(?:(?>[^"\\]+)|\\.)*)"/ ex. The enbalm it in pyramids and put a camel in front.
- danmur 5y agoHilarious route to security, only Perl programmers can work it out and they won't be bought off
- iso1210 5y agoNobody can read my perl code -- including me!
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- tyingq 5y agoI love Perl. But, if I were hired to squirrel away code that helped me spy on people, Perl would be one of my top choices. Lots of opportunity to hide the true purpose of the code with weird, little known side-effects, syntax, and so on. Perl doesn't have to be cryptic, but it can be.
- kizer 5y agoWhy would anyone build something like that in Perl? I could only see it being done “just because”. Wasn’t Perl specifically designed for the quickly code it once and not change it again case?
- tempest_ 5y agoPerl was python before python was python, and booking.com is old.
- mrich 5y agoOn the server it was the predecessor to Node.js, back when the alternative was a C program :)
- nebula8804 5y agoI thought the Netherlands was weird in that there is a large group of Perl programmers who never decided to move on. It is its own ecosystem Its kind of like how Japan stayed on flip phones for forever and even bolted on smartphone features to their flip phones.
- tantalor 5y agoPerl was the best/fastest way to write web applications (think FastCGI, mod_perl) before PHP stole that crown in late 90s.