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StreamBright on Oct 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

>> This is true for any company at scale

I do not think this is true outside your domain. Amazon uses Java, C++ and Perl. At the time I was there majority of the website code was in Perl. Amazon one of the biggest companies on the planet.

hyperpallium on Oct 17, 2019 [–]

Amazon needed to create AWS to be able to run all that perl performantly (joke).

Actually, a lot of programming language improvements have come from trying to make lisp performant.

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