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

In reply to Re: Re: Re: "roll your own" form generator by CountZero
in thread "roll your own" form generator by geektron

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