Alex Francis wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> These days I hear a lot of:- >> "You should use language X for this, language Y for that and language Z >> for the other" >> "Because language X was designed for this, Y is most commonly used for >> that, and Z was made for that OS" >> >> > > Hi Lyle > > While I'm (of course) very much in favour of Perl, I think for the > most part it's possible to hire bright programmers who can adapt to > whatever language or platform they need to. I've found the bigger > challenge to be in helping non-technical senior management to make > sensible choices and in helping them to trust their expensive > technical staff. >
I think your right that you can get bright programmers to adapt. But I think it'll take much dedication to be able to program at a high level in any new language. > I've worked places where the language/platform selection has been > based on some made-up nonsense about customers being more comfortable > with X or Y and if we use Z then we won't be able to sell (Z being > anything that isn't Java or .net). I've also seen what should have > been considered strategic decisions become panic-stricken knee-jerk > changes which waste huge amounts of money. > There does seem a big business thing to automatically assume .NET or Java are the best solution. I think a lot of this comes from SUNs and MS massive certification systems. But Perl certification is a whole other argument we'll leave for another day :) > Something I would say about Perl is that as a programmer it exposes > you to a lot of concepts that make other languages easier to pick up > (when you inevitably have to pick them up). I'd agree. When I went back to look at some C++ stuff, all the Perl I've done made things a lot clearer. Although C# looks totally weird to me, and I dread it when a customer has a c# shopping cart. Guess at some point I'm going to have to learn some Java.... But I just don't want to :/ Lyle _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
