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I worked at Yahoo, and it was Perl and PHP. Sheer madness.

Their were some talented folks but I'd like them more to cowboys - git'r done instead disciplined engineers.

Lots of production applications that had the code quality of your typical hacky side project.

I once had a debate with my manager about classes/OOP in PHP5. He didn't like it because it usually meant having separate files and includes per class, and he likes to have all code for a PHP page in a single pane in Vim. "But Kenny it's all in one file, everything I need to work on is right here!"

I still laugh about that.




> Lots of production applications that had the code quality of your typical hacky side project.

We laugh about it now, but that's why we end up with things like this:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/technology/yahoo-hack-3-b...




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