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I think the point of the metaphor was that 'the best programming language for the job' is often rather subjective.
by thomasfoster96 10y ago
I think the point of the metaphor was that 'the best programming language for the job' is often rather subjective.
- hueving 10y agoOh? Could I subjectivly suggest that Javascript would be appropriate for a system with hard real time requirements or formal verification requirements? Sometimes using a band saw to conduct brain surgery is just completely wrong.
- thomasfoster96 10y ago"often subjective" != "always subjective" It's pretty clear that COBOL would be a bad choice to write a multiplayer online game, and that JavaScript would be a bad choice for an operating system. As for the far far more common scenario (the one I had in mind) of choosing whether one of Ruby, Python or Node.js might be better for a certain project, the choice between the three is often going to be fairly subjective. You could solve a lot of problems in all three quite well. Trying to decide which one is objectively the "best" is often a waste of time that could be spent actually solving the problem at hand.