> So I end up coding in whatever language I can get the task
> done most quickly and easily.  Sometimes it's Rexx, sometimes
> it's assembler, sometimes it's fortran, sometimes it's C,
> sometimes it's shell script.  Makes for Job Security, because
> often I'll have one module call another and they're not
> written in the same language and no one but me can follow it.

The Force is strong in this one....8-).

Shades of VMS. I always liked the fact that VMS Engineering deliberately
coded at least one important system utility in each DEC-supported
language in order to require the marketing nitwits to ship all the
run-time libraries for all the supported language compilers
pre-installed at no charge to the customer.

Hmm. There may be a moral here.

-- db

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