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It's confusing why anyone would seek to blame a project's failure on the choice of programming language. The presence of this anecdote in the article seems to

• obviouslygreen 13y ago
  It's confusing why anyone would seek to blame a project's failure on the choice of programming language. The choice of language does have the potential to deep six a project; however, it's rarely something that can be blamed on the language itself. I've seen projects fail because of the language the chose for at least two reasons, but I think these two are the most obviously harmful: 1. Choosing a language that isn't just unsuitable, its design goals and tradeoffs should make it an obviously poor choice in terms of your requirements. 2. Choosing a language for use by a team that has no experience with it, no time to learn it, and/or lacks the discipline to learn it in sufficient depth to use it efficiently for the project's purposes. Again, these are not failures of any given language. They are, however, potential project-killers that are only possible based on the choice of programming language.