Have you ever let personal gain or a personal opinion influence technical decisions. For instance has your preference for the mighty Perl ever swayed your technical decisions on the rare occasions when another solution is superior.

I ask because *shields up* I am looking to learn a bit of Java *shields down* and have just recommended a project with the recommendation to use Java where Perl would have sufficed.

Betraying Perl like this to broaden my skill set is a terrible burden. I do however suspect some peoples loyalties are so strong that the technical merits of a solution are not considered for technical decisions and commercial or personal factors are considered.

I also suspect the personal beliefs that form the basis of open source or microsoft advocacy are causing many a bad decison to be made in the world of IT. I'd be interested to here of some other real life examples of corruption either for or against Perl based projects

In reply to Loyalty, Personal gain or Professional Integrity by hakkr

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