[LA.pm] contrasting London and LA

[James Pitts]

Perl seems to be a strong thread throughout the Idealabs companies. For
those of you who worked at Shopzilla, eToys, and Citysearch, do you
know any of the history about how Bill Gross' companies became perl
shops? Was there a perl advocate from Caltech or JPL on the Idealabs
staff? 

Or has LA been a good place for perl merely because it became ubiq in
the online porn industry :)

- James

--- Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask at develooper.com> wrote:

> 
> On the original subject: <strike>Overture</strike> Yahoo Search  
> Marketing is in Burbank and of course Google in Santa Monica have  
> suckered a few people to come work there (even if they aren't much of
>  
> a Perl shop).
> 
> My impression is that it's much more common to use LAMP-stuff for  
> building web things here than than in Europe (and the rest of the  
> world, maybe with the exception of Japan).
> 
> Maybe the bigger "local" market makes it easier to get forced away  
> from Windows systems?
> 
> 
>   - ask
> 

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