Re:The Pervert's Guide to Computer Programming Languages (20...
by lizmat on Monday April 27, 2020 @10:22AM
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If we're talking about the same thing: this was about merging their databases, so that either could sell the other company's inventory. Both had an XML-interface for affiliates. It took the Perl team about 3 weeks to be able sell the other company's inventory using the XML-interface. The other company at that point hadn't agreed on a date for a initial design meeting yet.
By this, the company of the Perl team almost doubled its turn-over in 3 weeks. The other company ceased to exist a few years later, with most of its staff integrated in the company with the Perl team.
One use Java, the other used Perl.
At some point both teams were told that they had to add a particular feature.
The Perl team was done well before the Java team.
This was a story from one of the Perl trainers. I don't remember enough about the rest of the video in order to find it online.