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Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

fennecfoxen 13y ago
Last I heard the New York Times was 'still' running Perl as well, and they're pretty big...
spudlyo 13y ago
Booking.com is a large online travel agency which is pretty popular in Europe. From a recent job description: Due to our continuing growth we are in search of Perl Developers for our headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We use Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Memcache, JavaScript, Git, Linux & more. We do agile software development based on scrum.
- noloqy 13y ago
  I guess we can call that the 90's heritage of Booking.com. Naturally we can't use the same explanation for DDG, which launched less than half a decade ago.
vacri 13y ago
Perl's strength is manipulating text. Search engines manipulate text...
- conradev 13y ago
  Precisely why I, too, believe Perl was chosen.
eliasmacpherson 13y ago
Slashdot too, if I could download knowledge into my brain matrix style, perl would be the first thing. http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashcode/slashcode;a=blob;f=README;h=92c4633dc5658e3501bfd7e96e272605d97b77a7;hb=live http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashc...
Moto7451 13y ago
Adding to the list of Perl shops: TicketMaster, Rent.com, Campus Explorer, and ZipRecruiter (where I work).
crucifiction 13y ago
A lot of Amazon.com is still Perl...
- flyinRyan 13y ago
  Are you sure about that? They had a big rewrite some years back and got rid of much of it.
kamaal 13y ago
Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.
- flyinRyan 13y ago
  Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).
  - kamaal 13y ago
    There is massive evidence that disagrees with you, for example look at Ruby and Perl 6. Just because a principle applied to something first does it now mean it should now never apply to anything ever.
dredmorbius 13y ago
Craigslist would be another Perl shop. And Media Temple.

fennecfoxen 13y ago

Last I heard the New York Times was 'still' running Perl as well, and they're pretty big...

spudlyo 13y ago

Booking.com is a large online travel agency which is pretty popular in Europe. From a recent job description: Due to our continuing growth we are in search of Perl Developers for our headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We use Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Memcache, JavaScript, Git, Linux & more. We do agile software development based on scrum.

noloqy 13y ago
I guess we can call that the 90's heritage of Booking.com. Naturally we can't use the same explanation for DDG, which launched less than half a decade ago.

vacri 13y ago

Perl's strength is manipulating text. Search engines manipulate text...

conradev 13y ago
Precisely why I, too, believe Perl was chosen.

eliasmacpherson 13y ago

Slashdot too, if I could download knowledge into my brain matrix style, perl would be the first thing. http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashcode/slashcode;a=blob;f=README;h=92c4633dc5658e3501bfd7e96e272605d97b77a7;hb=live http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashc...

Moto7451 13y ago

Adding to the list of Perl shops: TicketMaster, Rent.com, Campus Explorer, and ZipRecruiter (where I work).

crucifiction 13y ago

A lot of Amazon.com is still Perl...

flyinRyan 13y ago
Are you sure about that? They had a big rewrite some years back and got rid of much of it.

kamaal 13y ago

Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.

flyinRyan 13y ago
Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).
- kamaal 13y ago
  There is massive evidence that disagrees with you, for example look at Ruby and Perl 6. Just because a principle applied to something first does it now mean it should now never apply to anything ever.

dredmorbius 13y ago

Craigslist would be another Perl shop. And Media Temple.