Re^2: This isn't a job offer.

That sounds like a good approach to me.

Once upon a time, my company was a hodegepodge of development ... Tcl, Perl, C, Java, etc. A few years ago we rebuilt everything in Java, and "standardized" on being a "Java shop" so we start hiring "Java Developers" ... biggest mistake we ever made in my opinion. Now people have to write little mini-java apps just to do some log crunching because they don't know any other way.

Hire smart people; have them write code. Worry about the language they use somewhere in between -- not before, not after.

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Re^3: This isn't a job offer. by neilwatson (Priest) on Apr 03, 2007 at 19:10 UTC
I once saw 14MB of Java libraries and code to parse some text files. The same job could have been done in Perl, Sed or Awk in less than a thousand lines. Every job is a nail when all you have a a hammer. Neil Watson watson-wilson.ca	[reply]
Re^4: This isn't a job offer. by spurperl (Priest) on Apr 05, 2007 at 16:09 UTC
I wonder who were the programmers. You can reimplement Perl 10 times over in 14 MB of Java code...	[reply]