Mike Miller: > I just read about this in Wired -- see link at end of message. > > Zuckerberg developed Facebook in PHP. As it grew, they needed to do > something to improve on PHP, so they invented "Hack". The article doesn't really mention this stuff: http://news.softpedia.com/news/With-HipHop-Facebook-Merges-PHP-Flexibility-and-C-Raw-Speed-133973.shtml http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-may-release-its-core-c-library-this-year/8725 They also hired this well-known C++ programmer http://erdani.com/ The article mentions Java, but I don't think Facebook uses much Java! -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us. http://webEbenezer.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140320/68cf797f/attachment.html>