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And DuckDuckGo, Petfinder, MusicBrainz, Yahoo!, and TicketMaster.

The Swiss army chainsaw saw some things.

Implicit $_ , regex wizardry and The Monastery. I miss those days. Perl had culture like its successor Ruby and unlike its soulless cousin Python.

Care to elaborate? I never heard this before particularly of Amazon which is notorious for Java

OG Amazon backend was mostly Perl iirc

What about their DB? Did they fight MyISAM daily?

Craigslists secret sauce was also that eBay bought Gumtree and let it stagnate.

Probably deliberately so, as it was cannibalising eBay.

Shhh.