Craigslist and Amazon's secret sauce was Perl.

imglorp 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

And DuckDuckGo, Petfinder, MusicBrainz, Yahoo!, and TicketMaster.

The Swiss army chainsaw saw some things.

	▲	cutler 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Implicit $_ , regex wizardry and The Monastery. I miss those days. Perl had culture like its successor Ruby and unlike its soulless cousin Python.

no_wizard 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Care to elaborate? I never heard this before particularly of Amazon which is notorious for Java

	▲	cobbzilla 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		OG Amazon backend was mostly Perl iirc

aitchnyu 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What about their DB? Did they fight MyISAM daily?

v5v3 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Craigslists secret sauce was also that eBay bought Gumtree and let it stagnate.

Probably deliberately so, as it was cannibalising eBay.

ransom1538 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Shhh.