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Michael Trimm
Hi,

I have a GMail Account and I was wondering, what programming language is google mail and other google services programmed in?

Thanks
Scott H.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think I've seen some Python pages on google somewhere. If you look at a Web Engineer job app (which is a Python page) you'll see that they ask for experience or Perl, Python or PHP - so I guess it'll be a scripting language or sorts.
Michael Trimm
AJax - Its a programming language that can be embedded with Perl, PHP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is a programming language that only changes the data on a page that has been changed, if you add a reply - the reply shows back up (on IPB2), if you click "compose mail" in gmail, it will return just the area for the text editor. I looked at it yesterday after I had posted this and searched at our local borders. Its AJax that it sounds like!
Scott H.
AJAX isn't a programming language, more a technique for web development. Google have been using AJAX for a while and they certainly do use it on GMail, but it is not the language that makes it all tick.
Michael Trimm
Oh lol that makes a little more sense, when i was looking at the book, it seemed like it was a programming language, lol nope its a style of programming.

tHANKS sCOTt
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