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C++? No way, Blekko's done in Perl. See the YAPC slides: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/blekko-yapc-na-2013-2.pdf http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/blekko-yapc-na-2013-2
by fennecfoxen 12y ago
C++? No way, Blekko's done in Perl. See the YAPC slides: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/blekko-yapc-na-2013-2.pdf http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/blekko-yapc-na-2013-2.pdf
- greglindahl 12y agoWe have a lot of C/C++ in the guts of our software, it's a lot more than just the million lines of Perl!
- jmcdowell 12y agoAny reason for the use of Perl both in this and in DDG? I'm a recent Comp Sci graduate and haven't seen a lot jobs for Perl or use cases over say Python/Ruby which seem to more popular.
- TorKlingberg 12y agoI guess the people who made them were already comfortable with Perl. Perl is also very good at text processing.