Comments on: Programming Languages – Does the choice matter? http://www.devgirlspeaks.com/2009/02/programming-languages-%e2%80%93-does-the-choice-matter/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Scott http://www.devgirlspeaks.com/2009/02/programming-languages-%e2%80%93-does-the-choice-matter/#comment-16 Scott Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:28:21 +0000 http://www.devgirlspeaks.com/?p=60#comment-16 I think language choice is fundamentally important in the context of a project. Sure, many standard one-off forms over data applications are fine with whatever language you can use, but not making a consideration puts us squarely in the "everything looks like a nail" camp. Some types of functionality lend themselves better to a given language because those languages were designed for those use-cases. Functional languages are exceedingly good at concurrency, stuff that is hard to do in c#. Perl is exceedingly good at text parsing and manipulation. VB is exceedingly good at interop with Office. My thoughts are to gather as many different hammers as we can and choose them for the appropriate nails. I think language choice is fundamentally important in the context of a project. Sure, many standard one-off forms over data applications are fine with whatever language you can use, but not making a consideration puts us squarely in the “everything looks like a nail” camp.

Some types of functionality lend themselves better to a given language because those languages were designed for those use-cases. Functional languages are exceedingly good at concurrency, stuff that is hard to do in c#. Perl is exceedingly good at text parsing and manipulation. VB is exceedingly good at interop with Office.

My thoughts are to gather as many different hammers as we can and choose them for the appropriate nails.

]]> By: MyFriendTodd http://www.devgirlspeaks.com/2009/02/programming-languages-%e2%80%93-does-the-choice-matter/#comment-15 MyFriendTodd Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:34:44 +0000 http://www.devgirlspeaks.com/?p=60#comment-15 I prefer the combo (some ppl think its weird) ActionScript/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL. It is very easy for me to navigate from web to desktop with this combo. I get a lot of heat from devs at my C#/.NET work place. I see a great benefit for ASP.NET in an enterprise environment where you would need IIS and infrastructure, but like most MS stuff it can get very expensive. I guess I have to remember that I have somewhat of a rogue skill set that makes me a half breed designer/developer anyway :-p. I prefer the combo (some ppl think its weird) ActionScript/JavaScript/PHP/MySQL. It is very easy for me to navigate from web to desktop with this combo. I get a lot of heat from devs at my C#/.NET work place.

I see a great benefit for ASP.NET in an enterprise environment where you would need IIS and infrastructure, but like most MS stuff it can get very expensive.

I guess I have to remember that I have somewhat of a rogue skill set that makes me a half breed designer/developer anyway :-p.

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