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Re:Toys 'R' Us Founder Charles Lazarus Dies at 94 by ars on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:11AM (#16658929)
> Not that it was necessarily solely CF's fault

In the year 2000 ColdFusion was a good choice, so I would not fault them for that.

PHP because the better choice around 2004.

Interestingly Amazon is/was written in C++, which was a very unusual choice.

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Re:Toys 'R' Us Founder Charles Lazarus Dies at 94 by mountainofdeath on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:00PM (#16659408)
The original Amazon executable C and later C++ since there really was no other alternative (this was circa 1994). In the late 90s, Perl started making its way into the front-end.

Either way, the tech stack has little to do with the success of the business.

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