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On 04/25/2012 07:04 PM, Dr.Ruud wrote: > On 2012-04-25 21:53, Shawn H Corey wrote: >> On 12-04-25 03:18 PM, Mark Haney wrote: > >>> FWIW, I've never seen an entire website built completely in perl. >>> Doesn't mean there aren't any, but they must be very few and far >>> between. (No offense to the perl crowd, just an observation.) >> >> Here's a few: >> >> amazon.com actually amazon has lots of perl but isn't entirely perl at all. but imdb which they own is all perl >> craiglist.com >> livejournal.com >> slashdot.com that is a .org for some historical reason. and its codebase is open sourced too. >> ticketmaster.com the two largest shoe web stores are both perl based: zappos.com and shoebuy.com petfinder.com is all perl. there are many many other perl based web sites out there, big and small. the problem is that most sites don't tell you they are perl based until you look for their job listings. whereas it is easy to see php based sites from their pages. besides that, perl is used in so many companies of all types and locations, it matters little if it is popular in building web sites. plenty do that and that is all that counts. it will never be like the early matt's crap scripts and all perl/cgi sites everywhere. uriThread Previous | Thread Next