<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Mike Miller:<br>
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> I just read about this in Wired -- see link at end of message.<br>
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> Zuckerberg developed Facebook in PHP.  As it grew, they needed to do<br>
> something to improve on PHP, so they invented "Hack". <br>
<br></div>The article doesn't really mention this stuff:<br><br></div><a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/With-HipHop-Facebook-Merges-PHP-Flexibility-and-C-Raw-Speed-133973.shtml">http://news.softpedia.com/news/With-HipHop-Facebook-Merges-PHP-Flexibility-and-C-Raw-Speed-133973.shtml</a><br>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-may-release-its-core-c-library-this-year/8725">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-may-release-its-core-c-library-this-year/8725</a><br><br>They also hired this well-known C++ programmer<br>
<a href="http://erdani.com/">http://erdani.com/</a><br></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
<br>The article mentions Java, but I don't think Facebook<br>uses much Java!<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Brian<br>Ebenezer Enterprises - So far G-d has helped us.<br><a href="http://webEbenezer.net" target="_blank">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br>
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