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Re:Edward C++Hands by mercurial on Friday September 20, 2013 @04:27AM (#6416581)
Facebook also uses Haskell (several well-known members of the Haskell community work there).
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Re:Edward C++Hands by fhd2 on Friday September 20, 2013 @04:49AM (#6416654)
To transform PHP code, it seems [1]. That's not quite the same as the backend and infrastructure of Facebook and Google.

I'm not trying to start a flame war or anything, just pointing out that C++ is good at some things you cannot really do with friendlier languages.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/lex-pass

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Re:Edward C++Hands by mercurial on Friday September 20, 2013 @05:38AM (#6416779)
Not only [1].

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1le4y5/the_haxl_pro...

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