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Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In?

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On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> wrote:
> On 2011-08-02 15:41:06 +0100, ccc31807 said:
>
>>
>> Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very important,
>> but so are other kinds of companies. What do manufacturing companies
>> use, like Ford and Toyota, energy companies like BP and Exxon,
>> pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, and so on? What
>> about the big retailers, Sears, WalMart, Target, etc.?
>
> A more important metric is how critical the web presence is to the company.
>  For Amazon, say, it's pretty critical, so what they do is likely to be
> interesting: if their site is broken they're not making any money.  For
> Toyota, say, well, an outage would probably be embarrassing, but it's not
> anything like as critical to them.
>
> Unfortunatly I suspect that with web stuff as with other stuff, the answer
> is that it entirely depends.  I am endlessly horrified by the poor state of
> software that is really critical to large companies.
>
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What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> - 2011-07-12 04:54 -0700
  Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? ccc31807 <cartercc@gmail.com> - 2011-07-13 13:04 -0700
    Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? igotmumps <mike@mumps.ca> - 2011-07-20 18:03 -0700
      Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Michael Steinfeld <mikeisgreat@gmail.com> - 2011-07-20 21:48 -0400
    Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? gavino <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 11:38 -0700
      Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? ccc31807 <cartercc@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 07:41 -0700
        Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2011-08-02 21:31 -0700
          Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-08-03 10:00 -0700
        Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Tim Bradshaw <tfb@tfeb.org> - 2011-08-12 16:58 +0100
          Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 02:26 +1000
      Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> - 2011-08-02 16:15 -0700
  Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? Anton Fonarev <avfonarev@gmail.com> - 2011-07-14 01:50 +0400
  Re: What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In? John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-07-22 23:30 -0700

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