DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by stevelaz on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:19PM (#6022510)

Wow, that's good to see perl 'still' being used by someone that big. I didn't believe you to begin with but to quote the wikipedia article: "The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux."

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by eliasmacpherson on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @06:55PM (#6023349)

Slashdot too, if I could download knowledge into my brain matrix style, perl would be the first thing.

http://slashcode.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=slashc...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by kamaal on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @11:02PM (#6024242)

Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by flyinRyan on Friday July 12, 2013 @12:15PM (#6033401)

Nonsense. That quote comes from Common Lisp, it was just hopelessly bastardized by some perl people (like everything else in that language :P).

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by kamaal on Friday July 12, 2013 @11:52PM (#6036605)

There is massive evidence that disagrees with you, for example look at Ruby and Perl 6.

Just because a principle applied to something first does it now mean it should now never apply to anything ever.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by spudlyo on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:51PM (#6022708)

Booking.com is a large online travel agency which is pretty popular in Europe. From a recent job description:

Due to our continuing growth we are in search of Perl Developers for our headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We use Perl, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Memcache, JavaScript, Git, Linux & more. We do agile software development based on scrum.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by noloqy on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:25PM (#6022945)

I guess we can call that the 90's heritage of Booking.com. Naturally we can't use the same explanation for DDG, which launched less than half a decade ago.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by fennecfoxen on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:25PM (#6022547)

Last I heard the New York Times was 'still' running Perl as well, and they're pretty big...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by Moto7451 on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @08:49PM (#6023843)

Adding to the list of Perl shops: TicketMaster, Rent.com, Campus Explorer, and ZipRecruiter (where I work).

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by vacri on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:36PM (#6023008)

Perl's strength is manipulating text. Search engines manipulate text...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by conradev on Thursday July 11, 2013 @01:22AM (#6024568)

Precisely why I, too, believe Perl was chosen.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by dredmorbius on Thursday July 11, 2013 @07:39AM (#6025457)

Craigslist would be another Perl shop. And Media Temple.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by crucifiction on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:58PM (#6024228)

A lot of Amazon.com is still Perl...

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Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) by flyinRyan on Friday July 12, 2013 @12:16PM (#6033410)

Are you sure about that? They had a big rewrite some years back and got rid of much of it.

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