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i once inherited a webservice written in php that shelled out to a python script that called a haskell binary to parse, edit, commit, and push bind zone configs to svn

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)

@thebadcode.com

this is a lie: i wrote this service, i was 23

John David Pressman

@jdp.extropian.net

Okay so like, what was the thought process?

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)

@thebadcode.com

i was writing web-based internal tools at facebook, so it had to be in php. the requests hit timeouts so i had to wire up some async/polling thing, and i already knew how to do that in python. and i thought haskell was really neat and i wanted an excuse to use it. oh and my manager didnt stop me

25/10/26, 3:26 am0 reposts47 likes

Eli Mallon

@iame.li

bind zone configs at facebook, eh? guess we finally found the root cause