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Yahoo Moving to PHP
Erek Dyskant writes "Yahoo has decided to switch from a proprietary system written in C/C++ to PHP for their backend scripting. Here's the notes from a presentation by a Yahoo engineer at PHP Con 2002."
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Cats sleeping with dogs, PHP useful at something!!!
Je t'aime Stéphanie
*applys for a job*
I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
I hope the developers at Yahoo! understand fully the dangers of using PHP.
As long as the change doesn't cause me to lose the lead in my fantasy hockey league, Yahoo can do whatever it pleases.
And, if I do happen to lose the lead in my fantasy hockey league, I now have something to blame it on.
yahoo will need more E10000's soon ;-)
Code that uses malloc() and cout, of course. ;)
"Freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more."
well, we'll see how much yahoo! likes dealing with the Exploit-a-Month club that is PHP. :-( buncha insecure-code writing hacks...
PHP: almost object oriented
PHP: a problem for your problem
PHP: at least its faster than java
Would the PHB's like it?
engineer:this is a rare opportunity phb: hmm?....
engineer: PHP is not yet a buzz word...we can set the market, indicators would rise, indexes improve, shareholder confidence would surge!
phb: WOW! I want PHP!
Jr. Engineer: What did all that stuff you said mean?
(clever)engineer: With Y having nearly 11M lines of code to rewrite in a new language....it means job security (and we still don't have to wear a suit)
If Yahoo can do it, why can't slashdot?
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Perl || die
must... stay... awake...
Your fired.
-your boss-
Someone you trust is one of us.
Nobody is better at hype than Sun, gotta give them that. Always overpromise and never deliver. Weren't we all supposed to be using Java thin clients and Java-rings right now surfing JXTA based P2P networks with our JINI powered devices? Right. The whole economy will be better off the day Sun finally goes away.
#1: make search engine
#2: make portal in cgi
#3: profit
#4: make portal in php
#5: more profit
yes it is still profitable if you follow this businessplan
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Um...just because you have an email address @yahoo.com doesn't mean you work for Yahoo!
(B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
I got an ad for visual studio .net when I pulled up the story...
Clearly, they should have used Cobol.NET.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
I work for Yahoo!.
When you say this in person, do they force you to sing it like a cowboy?
Vote in November. You won't regret it.
1) I see Java-lovers have knocked me down -2 overrated so it's back down to 3. Way to squelch opposing opinion there.
2) To ALL the repliers here: I know exactly what I'm talking about. I have coded expertly and will continue to do so in everything from x86 asm to C to C++ to Java to Perl to
11*43+456^2
There was a dilbert a couple weeks ago which I would recommend for you. It had to do with a user having a fatal illness due to exposure to an interface designed by an engineer.
As a developer with a Master's Degree in Business, I would say that more often than not in my experience it is the guys with the most "engineer" oriented approach in them that create the least attractive and worst performing code.
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)