My Language Choice Conundrum

by justin james in Developer

on November 9, 2006, 2:17 PM PST

My Language Choice Conundrum

A recent TechRepublic article has sparked a fairly fierce discussion about the appropriateness of particular languages to particular tasks. What I find interesting about this is the attitude of, “well, if this is the language that I know, why shouldn’t I use it?

By justin james

I am an all purpose IT person. If there's a generic job title in IT, I've probably had it, most likely more than once. Programmer, systems administrator, DBA, PC tech/repair, Help Desk, webmaster, web designer, web developer, applications developer, network engineering. Somehow I have managed to get my thumb stuck in each one of those pies!

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