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| Thread ID: 95013 | 2008-11-20 10:18:00 | Gmail coding language | Faded_Mantis (79) | PC World Chat |
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| 721687 | 2008-11-20 10:18:00 | Nevermind, my mind blank went away, AJAX was the answer i was looking for. | Faded_Mantis (79) | ||
| 721688 | 2008-11-20 12:40:00 | I had the same thing happen to me last night. Couldn't remember what the name of the damn language was!!! | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 721689 | 2008-11-20 19:43:00 | Programming rots the brain. You should be careful. | Deane F (8204) | ||
| 721690 | 2008-11-20 20:35:00 | Note that AJAX isn't a language - it's a coding technique for writing web applications. IIRC, GMail was written mostly in Java, then run through a Google toolkit to turn it into JavaScript (completely different language to java, no relation), XHTML, CSS, and some kind of server-side executable, I'm not sure exactly what. No doubt they also tweaked the final output as well. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 721691 | 2008-11-20 22:53:00 | Gmail is certainly a great example of a web application. It brought ajax into the limelight (even though the use of ajax goes back well before gmail was around). I think Google's official programming languages are C++, Python (they hired the Python language creator maybe a couple of years ago) and Java. And that gmail is hosted on Google's own web/app server implementation (GFE or something, a customised version of linux). Plus I would imagine they tie gmail into their own distributed file system implementation too (for storing everyones n GB of mail data). Very cool application all in all. |
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| 721692 | 2008-11-20 23:24:00 | I see they have just added Themes :thumbs: | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 721693 | 2008-11-21 03:47:00 | Programming rots the brain. You should be careful. +1 |
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