On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jason Bodnar wrote:
> > Could someone also give me a quick list (or a link to where I can find a
> > list) of some high-profile sites that use Perl, and pull it off?
>
> http://www.slashdot.org
Careful with this - it's a high traffic site, yes. But it doesn't exactly
pull off the scaleable code base problem. It took ages for Pudge (Hi
Chris!) to get it into a releaseable state, and even still it's not
exactly a beautiful bit of code. The problem there again: Poor initial
coder and zero design. Rob Malda wasn't even out of Uni when he started
slashdot, and it's code followed it's evolution, turning into a big
mess. I suspect there are probably days when Chris thinks about re-writing
the whole thing from scratch ;-)
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