in reply to Are Perl programmers just easier to deal with?

Sorry, but there's just no way hotmail is written in perl. They host it on MS servers now, not BSD. I'm sure they just preserve the URLs for the sake of bookmarks. You can't assume anything based on URLs.
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Re^2: Are Perl programmers just easier to deal with?
by hardburn (Abbot) on Mar 09, 2005 at 18:56 UTC

    Hardly. Perl runs on MS servers. You can even hear some praise for Perl coming from some sections of Microsoft (much of the .NET CLR was tested using a Perl framework, IIRC). As for bookmarking, much of this is internal URLs that change whenever Hotmail bleeding well feel like it.

    But I still doubt it's written in Perl.

    "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

      I know Perl runs on Windows, and have even used it there some, but you don't seriously think that a MS development team would choose to use Perl instead of their in-house tools for a public service like Hotmail, do you? They certainly wouldn't run CGI for a site with that much traffic, which was the thing in the URLs that made the OP think it was perl.