In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Waterbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Aahz wrote: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Stephen Waterbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>Also see Python Success Stories: http://pythonology.org/success >>> >>>A notable example is Verity's search engine -- see >>>http://python.oreilly.com/news/PythonSS.pdf >> >> Actually, your statement is slightly inaccurate. The Verity search >> engine is more than fifteen years old in its core technology; it was >> started as a LISP project at IIRC MIT. (At one point I was much amused >> to look at the C source code and find car() and cdr() functions.) As of >> my last information, Python isn't used at all in or with the Verity >> search engine. What you're referring to is the Verity Ultraseek engine, >> originally written and owned by Infoseek before getting transferred to >> Verity through a series of dot-bomb transactions. The Ultraseek engine >> doesn't use Python, but Python is used to control the engine, and I think >> much of the spider is written in Python. > >Actually, Aahz didn't add anything useful that wasn't explained better >in the article itself, pointing to which was the purpose of my post, >but he is correct: Python was *not* used to write the Verity search >engine ... how the hell do these stupid rumors get started anyhow?? ;). >Just read the article, dammit! :)
You're quite correct that I added little useful information, but seeing as I used to work at Verity, I couldn't resist adding some hopefully interesting and/or amusing trivia. Especially the LISP bit. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
