Comment Language wars. (Score 1) 286
Oh no...
xxxx is better than yyyy because..
Langugages (and really the platform / libraries are more important) ech have their own strength.
What you don't want to do is to solve a problem, add a prgramming language, because then suddenly tou have 3 problems instead of one:
-being to able to write in 2 langugages. (the subset of emplyess able to do that is much much smaller than those having good skills in one languges
-interface between them (rarely done, so few people understand the details.
-maintaining for a long time mulple languages.
If you run a JAVA enterpise. Fine. If you run perl/php, Fine. If you run C? ueh....cobol? Keep it!