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Re:Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index by vcool07 on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:52AM (#12495054)
Any specific reason you've used pascal ? I thought that language got extinct long ago.
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Re:Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index by deusu on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:48AM (#12495317)
It's alive and well. The TIOBE index still lists it ahead of Ruby, Swift, Objective-C, GoLang...

And I started this software 20 years ago. Granted, a LOT of the software has changed since then. But I don't see a reason to throw away existing code unless it is in need of so much change that rewriting from scratch would be easier. And even then I might stick to what I know best, and what fits best with other parts of the software.

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