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“I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”

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2024 points randlet | 2 comments | 12 Jul 18 15:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.518s | source
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adamnemecek ◴[12 Jul 18 16:16 UTC] No.17516031[source]▶
Even though I write python only if it’s going to be like 200 loc tops, it’s insane how gracefully the language has aged. It came out in 91, thus predating for example Java. Fun fact, I believe the very first google scraper was written in it.

At the same time I can’t wait for the next language to replace it.

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vram22 ◴[12 Jul 18 20:46 UTC] No.17518450[source]▶
>Fun fact, I believe the very first google scraper was written in it.

Fun "fact": I need to check my facts, but it could be that the very first Google was written it it, too :)

Checked:

https://www.google.co.in/search?q=what+language+was+google+s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

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1. kgwgk ◴[13 Jul 18 09:47 UTC] No.17521638[source]▶
That’s what he said :-) (first google scraper = scraper used in original google implementation)
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2. vram22 ◴[13 Jul 18 15:02 UTC] No.17523490[source]▶
Okay, I thought he meant a product that scraped Google sites.