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rjbond3rd on Nov 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yammer moving from Scala to Java

> The spectre of our Perl codebase was too much, sadly.

Just curious, though -- was that Perl codebase written and factored correctly, or was it already a big mess when you got it?

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