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> just need new Yahoos of 20s to pop up. I'm up for building this. What dinosaur languages should we code this in? erlang, tcl and perl?
by doublerabbit 6mo ago
> just need new Yahoos of 20s to pop up.
I'm up for building this. What dinosaur languages should we code this in? erlang, tcl and perl?
- rdevilla 6mo agoJust use lisp.
- kibwen 6mo agoYou may need to sit down for this, but when Yahoo launched, TCL was 6 years old, Perl was 7, and Erlang was 8. Today, Go is 14, Swift is 12, and Rust is 11.
- hn_acc1 6mo agoI'm still partial to Tcl from years in EDA - sign me up..
- guzfip 6mo agoHey, erlang is brilliant
- lbrito 6mo agoHaskell!
- rdevilla 6mo agoNow that I think about it, the Haskell Report did come out in '98...
- phyrex 6mo agoYou could work in Erlang, PHP, and C++ at Meta ;)