You're kidding--Yahoo! Store's getting ported to perl or C? Man, I hope it's perl... It'd be real fun to chat with Paul after that happens. :) | [reply] |
That's what I've heard. It hasn't happened yet. I hope it's Perl too and I think it will be. I think one of the reasons outside of performance is that there are many more fluent Perl and C programmers out there.
-Lee
"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."
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Indeed, I thought that was probably what you were talking about. It's somewhat a mystery (at least to Lisp programmers) why they wouldn't just port it to a faster Lisp (any major commercial Lisp, for example - doing such ports should be relatively trivial), but that may have to do with the perception of Lisp programmers being hard to find. You'd think a company would rather undergo that than the massive technical problems involved in reinventing a lot of Lisp (especially stuff like Graham's which (I would assume based on his books) uses a lot of very Lispy constructs), in another language, but it's their choice, I suppose
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