A short survey of websites and programming languages

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This is a list of the programing languages some popular websites were originally written on:
  • Reddit was written in Python
  • Twitter was written in Ruby
  • Digg was written in PHP
  • Facebook was written in PHP
  • GMail was written in C++ ref1
  • Blogger was written in Java ref1 ref2 ref3
  • Google was probably written partially on C++
  • Flickr was written in PHP
  • del.icio.us was written in Perl

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Programmer, scientist

I am an engineer that divides its work life between programming and neuroscience. This blog is a “bitacora” to share thoughts, programming ideas, useful findings, and stuff (more...)