even more funny it was internal payment processor @ large porn conglomerate in Eastern Europe.
Why is it funny? That seems like exactly the high load, high availability requirements that would require software quality way higher than in a typical SV app that never gets above 1k DAU.
The payment processing side is not really high load
I feel like there's a pun in here somewhere... ಠ_ಠ
They did write a functional framework and used "only" immutable vars though.
Which is ironic, given the largely imperative approach taken by TAoCP.