Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on Friday February 3, 2012 @01:08AM from the have-a-few-bucks dept.

mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source — a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of course, Perl. This is a successful enterprise giving something back to open source — which is how it should be."

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Re:Good on them by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-03 01:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

While I do like Craigslist, I don't agree with their policy of using and donating money to a hideous language created by a delusional religious zealot.
Let's hope that Larry Wall's hideous monstrosity dies with him.
Re:Is PERL still active by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-03 02:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Perl is great as awk on steroids which was its original purpose.
Not so great for the substrate for glue code because its syntax is so irregular.
Terrible for writing standalone applications.