On 10/31/2012 01:28 PM, Adam Russell wrote:
The building my office is in (One Constitution Center (OCC) in Charlestown) has a new tenant named Northern Light.The last time I heard of these people was back during the ".com boom" days. They had an internet search engine which, if I recall correctlywas implemented in Perl. I am a little surprised to see they still exist! I wonder if they still use Perl? Maybe once they are moved in I'll have a chance to ask.Apparently they basically do data mining of some sort or another at this point but googling "Northern Light and Perl" only turns up an ancient web scraping module for use with their long defunct search engine.
i worked for northern light in those days. i wrote the guts of the crawler and it was in c, not perl. i still have the source for that crawler! the indexer was some program running on vax/vms while my crawler ran on a single sun! the intertubes were a bit smaller in those days. i did also do a bunch of perl there parsing and converting various data feeds (not web stuff, they bought many other feeds) to the indexer format.
the company went under and later morphed into an internal search engine thingy i don't know much about. you new neighbor is likely that company as the name was kept around.
and some sad news, one of my colleagues from there, william whalen, who also came to perl monger meetings some times, passed away a month ago.
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