Interestingly I have just read the Paul Graham article about Beating the Averages you mentioned and I don't think that he is right. I belive exceptional programmers can do exceptional work in any programming language (maybe not in COBOL ;) so the fact they beat the competition using LISP does not mean they could not do it with some other language that can fit the domain.

But actually that is mostly irrelevant in my case. When I was thinking about this comparision I was mostly thinking about companies that prefer safe solutions, companies that like words like mainstream and industry standard.

Interestingly just as we speak here there is a poll on CM Crosssroads asking What is your development platform. the original poll gave 3 choices:

After some feedback the poll was changed and a few other environments were added, namingly I think we can say Perl is seen as "mainstream" once people will make polls where the 3 basic choices are .NET/Java and Perl (or maybe LAMP)

In reply to Re^4: Business readiness of programming languages by szabgab
in thread Business readiness of programming languages by szabgab

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