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There could be an interpretation thing going on in the question. I have not at work sat down and formally evaluated my selection of language for a given task. G
by jerf 5y ago
There could be an interpretation thing going on in the question. I have not at work sat down and formally evaluated my selection of language for a given task. Generally as soon as we so much as sketch out the problem, we know what our answer is. It's not hard to build a portfolio of about 2.5 general-purpose languages that covers pretty much every base you could need, such that you only really need super careful analysis on a very limited subset of problems.
So I could easily answer either way on that question depending on where you draw the line for "evaluation". I certainly thought about the language for every single task, and didn't just blindly pick the same language for everything, but I didn't necessarily "evaluate" it in some formal manner.