On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:51:11PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > I'm actually slightly surprised they don't push Python since that's > their internal language preference for the crawler, which is a pretty > sophisticated piece of code from what I've heard.
s/the crawler/prototypes/; Guido mentioned while in New York last week that Python was their prototyping language used to "get the algorithms right". Presumably it saved a lot of grey hairs compared to doing nasty design work in C++. Methinks that much of this would have been unnecessary if they started with Perl and Inlined as they went... Z.
