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Choosing a Language (wenger.us)
2 points by andrewparker on May 5, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I don't feel qualified to really comment here considering how few languages I've really immersed myself into, so I'll add this snippet from Paul Graham's "Great Hackers" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html ) essay as commentary, which immediately came to mind when reading bullet #2:

"A couple years ago a venture capitalist friend told me about a new startup he was involved with. It sounded promising. But the next time I talked to him, he said they'd decided to build their software on Windows NT, and had just hired a very experienced NT developer to be their chief technical officer. When I heard this, I thought, these guys are doomed. One, the CTO couldn't be a first rate hacker, because to become an eminent NT developer he would have had to use NT voluntarily, multiple times, and I couldn't imagine a great hacker doing that; and two, even if he was good, he'd have a hard time hiring anyone good to work for him if the project had to be built on NT."




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