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Craigslist and Amazon's secret sauce was Perl.
by cutler 1y ago
Craigslist and Amazon's secret sauce was Perl.
- imglorp 1y agoAnd DuckDuckGo, Petfinder, MusicBrainz, Yahoo!, and TicketMaster. The Swiss army chainsaw saw some things.
- cutler 1y agoImplicit $_ , regex wizardry and The Monastery. I miss those days. Perl had culture like its successor Ruby and unlike its soulless cousin Python.
- no_wizard 1y agoCare to elaborate? I never heard this before particularly of Amazon which is notorious for Java
- cobbzilla 1y agoOG Amazon backend was mostly Perl iirc
- aitchnyu 1y agoWhat about their DB? Did they fight MyISAM daily?
- v5v3 1y agoCraigslists secret sauce was also that eBay bought Gumtree and let it stagnate. Probably deliberately so, as it was cannibalising eBay.
- ransom1538 1y agoShhh.