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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by smaili on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:42PM (#23630343)
IIRC Craigslist was written in Perl but that's the only high traffic site that comes to mind.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by Twirrim on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:38PM (#23631184)
The Amazon retail site is written in perl (at least the presentation layer still is, you can find mason references still in the HTML source if you go looking, don't know how much else behind it is in perl).

https://metacpan.org/pod/Mason (if you're not familiar with Mason)

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by autarch on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @11:27PM (#23636588)
Actually, that's Mason 2. Amazon use(s|d) the OG Mason - https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Mason
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by petethered on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:12PM (#23630796)
Duck Duck Go and Booking.com were/are Perl backends.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by cutler on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:54PM (#23631420)
The fashion retailer Net-A-Porter has been a Perl shop since 2000. Haven't checked if that's still the case. They used to employ quite a few leading lights in the UK Perl community a few years ago.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by chubot on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:32PM (#23631093)
I think they still write everything in Perl, and they employ Larry Wall (or they did several years ago, last I heard)
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by 1-more on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:57PM (#23630600)
I know some fantasy sports site was, maybe CBS? I had a UX designer colleague who had worked on that.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by hnlmorg on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:19PM (#23630912)
A surprisingly large number of fantasy sports sites are.

Perl is everywhere, it's just not widely publicised because of the stigma attached to the language.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by ori_b on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:08PM (#23630755)
duckduckgo, as far as I recall.
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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by redis_mlc on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:18PM (#23634963)
imdb.com is perl.

Most of the ad network backend sites are perl, including a lot of Yahoo.

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