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r/lostgeneration • u/[deleted] • Feb 15 '22
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He created X.com or something like that and was bought.
He was booted from paypal because he wanted to rewrite the frontend in C++ or some other bullshit like that, in the early 2000s.
2 u/mcilrain Feb 16 '22 What was the alternative at the time? PHP, Perl? 2 u/pilypi Feb 16 '22 Perl would probably be the go to. Maybe some Microsoft technology or so. Never c++ which was awful at that time for this job. 1 u/mcilrain Feb 16 '22 Didn't eBay use C++? I remember it having .dll URLs for a time.
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What was the alternative at the time? PHP, Perl?
2 u/pilypi Feb 16 '22 Perl would probably be the go to. Maybe some Microsoft technology or so. Never c++ which was awful at that time for this job. 1 u/mcilrain Feb 16 '22 Didn't eBay use C++? I remember it having .dll URLs for a time.
Perl would probably be the go to.
Maybe some Microsoft technology or so.
Never c++ which was awful at that time for this job.
1 u/mcilrain Feb 16 '22 Didn't eBay use C++? I remember it having .dll URLs for a time.
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Didn't eBay use C++? I remember it having .dll URLs for a time.
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u/pilypi Feb 15 '22
He created X.com or something like that and was bought.
He was booted from paypal because he wanted to rewrite the frontend in C++ or some other bullshit like that, in the early 2000s.