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It is reasonable to recall that Java was being promoted in 1996 as the "net" language, yet lacked basic mature libraries for being so. Java only became a decen
by jhancock 17y ago
It is reasonable to recall that Java was being promoted in 1996 as the "net" language, yet lacked basic mature libraries for being so. Java only became a decent language with mature libs after many years of front running this position. Some of us that used Java early on, mainly because business drivers forced it on us (Sun/IBM/BEA wouldn't lie to corporate America?), don't have fond memories.
- tedunangst 17y agoWhat was python being promoted as in 1996?
- jhancock 17y agono idea. I'm not even sure that in 1996 I had heard of python. Not sure why folks on this thread want to keep bringing python into the mix, especially in a 1996 context. Others have stated that python isn't and never has been the core to Google's search engine.
- basugasubaku 17y agoAccording to their 1998 paper (http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html): "Most of Google is implemented in C or C++ for efficiency and can run in either Solaris or Linux." and also "Both the URLserver and the crawlers are implemented in Python." So at some point they decided to try out Python for certain tasks.