On Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 3:36:09 pm Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > for that matter facebook handles more than that a day - so does youtube - > > they > > use python servers. I believe that they are getting bang for their buck. > > As are google, yahoo, livejournal ... none of them use C. As some one > > remarked, > > I am ex-yahoo. So not true that 'none of them use C'. Most of the > foundation platforms we built on C.
I remember some time in the previous century yahoo! stated they were moving from 'legacy C programming' to php (with a lot of reasons why they did not choose perl) (since google had grabbed python, yahoo! could not consider python without loss of face). I was a perl guy then and remember being highly indignant that yahoo chose php over perl. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
