[lug] Development & reporting tool choices

[Jeffrey Haemer]

Rob,

I'll add a so-far unmentioned answer: One reason a billion and a half
Chinese still write by scribbling little pictures, instead of learning a
simple, efficient alphabet, is that they know it.

When I write a little script, I use Perl or the shell because I've gotten
pretty fluent in them.  Maybe I should use Ruby, but it'd take me longer; I
could be drinking an IPA with my friends instead. I'll switch once someone
pays me to do enough Ruby that programming in it becomes comfy -- when I've
lowered the activation energy.

Tom Christiansen sometimes says, "What's the difference in speed between an
application in C++ and an application in Perl?  About 3 weeks."

For him, sure.  I have friends who'll write a big chunk of Java to do
something I'd do in a few lines of shell script because they can finish it
faster.

I jump on new things -- I'm a neophile -- but it's work.  I make myself do
it.  Eventually, most folks I know coast.

We're all involuntary immigrants from another era; we carry it with us
because there's an age at which change becomes synonymous with loss.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Rob Nagler <nagler at bivio.biz> wrote:


> Why people still program "compiled" languages in this day and age is
> beyond me.
>
> Rob
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