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colins_pride on July 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why Python over Ruby?

This is somewhat tangential, but I'm pretty sure that Google re-writes the search code ever few years.

peskytruth on July 1, 2009 [–]

Yeah? Well, none of that search code is written in Python. It's C/C++.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/754301/what-programming-l... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/923225/does-google-use-py...

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