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we don't use the tool for those

Sounds like the IT-dept. in the company I'm working.

When I suggested to use Perl for the generation of the dynamic webpages, they said "no, we are not going to learn another language". When asked what languages they do use, it turned out they did not use any general purpose language at all but a score of "tools" for all kinds of "tasks". At least I "corrupted" one of them to use PHP and I keep happily programming in Perl for my own pages on the corporate website :)

Seems to me that the cost to maintain any level of proficiency in all these tools must be much higher than learning one real language. Well, I'm not part of the IT-dept, so the logic probably escapes me.

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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Re: Re: Re: Re: "roll your own" form generator
by geektron (Curate) on Jan 11, 2004 at 20:34 UTC
    sounds like really big fun.

    this place is going to be a challenge in more ways that one. it's a 2-man shop ( a programmer/sysadmin and a designer ) where some things are Perl/mod_perl, some things are Java, other things are PHP, and, as noted earlier, no documentation.