I used to work for a company who insisted that everything be done in Java. Now I work for a company who is in bed with C# and other .NETedness. I can understand standardizing on a set of tools, but I think this attitude is kind of dumb in some respects. Sometimes it feels like hammering a screw into the wall with a somewhat stale loaf of bread.

I just finished writing a front-end application at work using Python and wxPython (which is incredible I think). It would have taken me at least a week to do it in C, C++, C#, Java, or any other buzzword language, but I finished it in a little over a day using Python. My app has the added benefits of being cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD), it has a native look on each of these platforms, and it runs a lot faster than a Java/Swing app would.

Ideally, such a time saving technology, and those who know how to use it, would be valued. Yet somehow those pointy haired MBAs that seem to run most companies don't seem to get it.