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tamersalama
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Just curious about the backend. Python too or Lisp?
tonfa
on Sept 13, 2011
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Why "Python too"?
abraham
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Google is well known for using Python.
felideon
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I'm willing to bet this is using ITA's software, which is written entirely in Common Lisp. See my comment above.
abraham
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I said nothing about this specific product. I was simply simply answering the parents question about the use of Python at Google.
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Using python yes. But for building apps with heavy traffic? Most of the SWE jobs on google.com/jobs have a Java/C/C++ requirement, not Python.
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