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Website was written in C for NSAPI. obidos was the name. If you see current URLs that contain /gp/, that is when they transitioned to java backend. GP stands
by donflamenco 5y ago
Website was written in C for NSAPI. obidos was the name. If you see current URLs that contain /gp/, that is when they transitioned to java backend. GP stands for Garupa.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoTechnically, it was C++ limited to a tiny subset of C++ features. Shel wasn't so keen on all that fancy C++ stuff but thought there was a role for "objects".
- kikoreis 5y agoI believe it's actually called Gurupa, and named after the island on the Amazon just downriver of the delta. The only place I know that refers to the area as Garupa is Selfridge's survey at https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/survey-amazon-selfrigde.html https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading... — and even so inconsistently.