Yes a) Some languages are better suited form some applications than others. You might be able to create a desktop game using Perl, but not really what it is de

Yes a) Some languages are better suited form some applications than others. You might be able to create a desktop game using Perl, but not really what it is designed to do. b) There's more than one way to do it and everyone's different. So part of language choice depends on what you are comfortable working with and how you solve problems. Some language, while absolutely are great don't work for some people, and also some languages that seem to some like a piece of crap, others can really rock with. I think the factors are can the language solve your problems and does the product work well. For the non-programmers languages are all the fiddly stuff, whatever as long as it works. The more complex/mature the tasks then you have to do more factoring in of language choices for scalability, robustness, readability, etc.