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Friendly reminder that all programming languages are just tools and it's not productive to get worked up about which one is better than others or which arbitrar
by pluma 11y ago
Friendly reminder that all programming languages are just tools and it's not productive to get worked up about which one is better than others or which arbitrary label makes them more valuable.
Except PHP. PHP still sucks.
- noir_lord 11y agoWas with you till the second sentence.
- pluma 11y agoThat was the joke.
- davzie 11y agoPHP Lives Matter!
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- actsasbuffoon 11y agoI half agree. A hammer and a screwdriver are both just tools, but they're good at different things. It's good to know about the variety of available tools and the sorts of tasks they're good at.
- pluma 11y agoSure, but in many situations the tool you already have and understand trumps the theoretically better suited tool you have to pick up at the hardware shop and train your team to use. The logical extreme would otherwise be to switch to a new tool whenever one comes out that is objectively better at a given task and retrain every team member that was previously using the old tool and rewrite the code that relies on the old tool to use the new tool. This balance is called pragmatism and it's more important in the real world than the objective quality of tools you don't already have in your toolbelt.