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Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Hey ! by dargaud · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, I had to use suffer using perl for a year ! Can I get 2$ for a beer too ?
    Sorry, I'm not very good at trolling...

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  2. Trolling Perl by betterunixthanunix · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Call it PERL
    2. Say that you prefer sed and awk
    3. http://www.jeffreykegler.com/Home/perl-and-undecidability
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