The decision to programming in Perl, Ruby, or Python most of the time comes down to which language you are most familiar or comfortable with.
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Zen Device
on May 03, 2007
Of course if one of them offers that extra something that is unique to it, that makes the choice easier too.
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Or the familiarity of your team.
I *wish* more people would get multilingual but a lot of people do appear to be very lazy. I don't understand that myself... but then that's why I'm a hacker.
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I think it's time that I embraced my hacker nature.I'm constantly exploring different languages (natural as well as computer) and I get so much out of my explorations.
Decided by some idiot like me or devnull.
It often is possible to get a change in language if you can show a good reason. I worked for a project for BT (big telco here in the UK) in the mid/late nineties that had to get management board level approval for us to use Java. But we did get it.
Ouch. No.
How on earth did perl get established like that? It's *such* an anarchic language. Who'd have thought it?