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doublerabbit
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Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
> just need new Yahoos of 20s to pop up.
I'm up for building this. What dinosaur languages should we code this in? erlang, tcl and perl?
kibwen
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You may need to sit down for this, but when Yahoo launched, TCL was 6 years old, Perl was 7, and Erlang was 8. Today, Go is 14, Swift is 12, and Rust is 11.
phyrex
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You could work in Erlang, PHP, and C++ at Meta ;)
hn_acc1
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I'm still partial to Tcl from years in EDA - sign me up..
rdevilla
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Just use lisp.
lbrito
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Haskell!
rdevilla
65 days ago
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Now that I think about it, the Haskell Report did come out in '98...
guzfip
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Hey, erlang is brilliant
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I'm up for building this. What dinosaur languages should we code this in? erlang, tcl and perl?