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                                             July 24, 2010



Tim Bray comments:

   "Also, in my career I have written two rather
   large-scale (as in, they harvested billions of
   pages) Web crawlers, one which in a certain
   sense made my fortune. Both were implemented
   in Perl and I found it a highly-appropriate
   tool for the job. I remember with a certain
   vindictive glee the doomed pathetic thrashing
   of the follow-on project; someone with
   Enterprise Experience decided that my pathetic
   amateurish Perl crawler should be replaced by
   a properly-architected Java version."

         "D.P.H." (Desperate Perl Hacker)
         [ref]



                                     (Perhaps more of an anecdote
                                     than a "case study"...)


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