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As a programmer I agree, but as management that's a hard thing to tell. If you were the boss would you allow Lisp? Scheme? Erlang? It sounded like a pretty im

by sliken 4y ago

As a programmer I agree, but as management that's a hard thing to tell. If you were the boss would you allow Lisp? Scheme? Erlang? It sounded like a pretty important piece of code, even if small. The complaints about being forced to do C++ and how painful that process was shows that it's at least non-trivial.

AnimalMuppet 4y ago
I disagree. If you're managing programmers, you might be expected to have a bit of a clue about programming languages. If you can't tell how easy it would be for your people to pick up Go versus how easy it would be to pick up Lisp, you have no business managing programmers.
- dgb23 4y ago
  Well you can still manage programmers but you certainly shouldn't micromanage their technological choices then.
  - s17n 4y ago
    You can argue about whether enforcing language consistency across an organization is a good idea or not, but it isn't "micromanagement".