Re: [Omaha.pm] [OMG!Code] Tue Oct 8 meeting

for scripting and automation (and a lot of other things as you would suspect) has been done in perl. There are some efforts i've heard of in regards to moving to python.

The officially company supported languages are C++, java, perl, ruby. Unlike Google though you are allowed to contribute with any language as long as you can get it to compile and your team is ok with that language.

We are loving washington to be honest. I spent my whole life in nebraska and it really is refreshing to see be in a different environment everyday.

I'll see if i can come up with an example to work on... Probably gonna have to find myself a decent perl book.

--Jay

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Matt Payne <Payne@mattpayne.org> wrote:

Congratulations on joining Amazon! How wonderful!! Hope you can tell some stories.

What does Amazon use? PERL? Python?

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Jay,

Actually my wife and i relocated to seattle washington for the position with amazon!

I don't know a whole lot about perl outside of small scripts but it all just feels much more complicated to write compared to python for similar web apps so hopefully i can alleviate some of my pain (or just convince everybody to use python...)

--Jay

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Jay Hannah <jay.hannah@iinteractive.com> wrote:

On Oct 2, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Jay Bendon <jaybocc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm interested in the presentation and summary of this presentation since my team does a lot of perl at amazon and its absurdly painful to develop in perl compared to python. Lol.

Hi Jay,

I'm bummed that you couldn't make it out to the meeting last night. I'm really interested in the Python vs. Perl phenomenon as you experience it at Amazon. I didn't know Amazon was in Omaha, using Perl. I'd love to hear a lot more about that. :)

Last night a big chunk of my presentation was about how awful Perl can be. And how great Perl can be. I'm sure there's great and awful Python code out there too. Seems to me great and awful is possible in every language.

Anyway, I'd love to hear anything you could share. I'd love to help fix your Perl stuff. :)

Thanks,

Jay Hannah
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