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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by ryanianian on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:54AM (#16213525)
A surprisingly huge amount of the Amazon.com codebase is Perl 5. The various back-ends are primarily in Java, but most front-end code is Perl/Mason.
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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by autarch on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @07:10PM (#16219164)
Wow! Still?

As one of the primary maintainers of Mason for many years I enjoyed telling non-technical friends that they used my work every time they went to Amazon. But I'd kind of assumed that was no longer the case these days. Apparently I can keep telling them the same thing!

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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by ryanianian on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:41PM (#16227406)
Mason is great. Thanks for your work! They are phasing it out but very slowly. It'll probably be around forever on internal tools.
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Re:Perl 6 Optimism by autarch on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:50PM (#16228851)
Cool, I'm glad it's still helping people. For the record, I was not the creator of the package. That was Jon Swartz.

I did a lot of work on it for quite a few years in the early 2000s and maintained it for quite some time after that.

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