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This ("the language you use doesn't matter") has never made sense to me. I get that what we produce is of value to others while the tools we use isn't of value
by oconnor0 15y ago
This ("the language you use doesn't matter") has never made sense to me. I get that what we produce is of value to others while the tools we use isn't of value & doesn't - directly - matter.
But, I know that certain languages are closer to how I want to think & how I want to be able to solve problems while other languages inhibit that or restrict the ways I think about & am able to express problems.
I only have about a half dozen years of professional experience so perhaps I am simply naive here.
- saraid216 15y agoActually, your attitude is exactly the one that advice is trying to foster. Keep in mind that some pieces of advice are not meant to stand alone; they're reactive and meant to act as pushback against worse things. There are religious wars between various languages, as I'm sure you're aware, and the driving force between a lot of the arguments is that the tool of choice is more important than solving the problem. If only they focused more on problem solutions rather than saying that Perl has too many sigils or Java is full of silly factory patterns, they'd be able to agree that Perl is useful for many things and Java is useful in many situations.