[Omaha.pm] [OMG!Code] Tue Oct 8 meeting

[Matt Payne]

Congratulations on joining Amazon!  How wonderful!!  Hope you can tell some
stories.

What does Amazon use?   PERL?  Python?


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Jay,
>
> Actually my wife and i relocated to seattle washington for the position
> with amazon!
>
> I don't know a whole lot about perl outside of small scripts but it all
> just feels much more complicated to write compared to python for similar
> web apps so hopefully i can alleviate some of my pain (or just convince
> everybody to use python...)
>
>
>
> --Jay
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Jay Hannah <jay.hannah at iinteractive.com>wrote:
>
>> On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i'm interested in the presentation and summary of this presentation
>> since my team does a lot of perl at amazon and its absurdly painful to
>> develop in perl compared to python. Lol.
>>
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> I'm bummed that you couldn't make it out to the meeting last night. I'm
>> really interested in the Python vs. Perl phenomenon as you experience it at
>> Amazon. I didn't know Amazon was in Omaha, using Perl. I'd love to hear a
>> lot more about that.  :)
>>
>> Last night a big chunk of my presentation was about how awful Perl can
>> be. And how great Perl can be. I'm sure there's great and awful Python code
>> out there too. Seems to me great and awful is possible in every language.
>>
>> Anyway, I'd love to hear anything you could share. I'd love to help fix
>> your Perl stuff.  :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay Hannah
>> Project Lead / Programmer
>> http://www.iinteractive.com
>> Email: jay.hannah at iinteractive.com
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>>
>>
>>
>>
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