From: Richard Conroy <richard.conroy@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T05:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: Polyglot programming article?

On Dec 25, 2007 4:04 PM, Jay Levitt <jay+news@jay.fm> wrote:
> About three or four months ago, I ran across a great article/blog post
> somewhere, arguing that corporations (like Google) should stop restricting
> their developers to two or three specific programming languages.

Well it was not specifically addressing google, who have 4 canonical languages,

> I specifically remember it making the point that even if we only program a
> web app in "one language", like C++ or Java, we really end up programing in
> about 30 languages anyway: batch scripts, shell scripts, Apache config,
> SQL, macros, templates, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON or XML, etc.
>
> Can anyone remember this article?  It was NOT:
>
> - Martin Fowler's OneLanguage article on his bliki

I would look at Tim Brays writings. He probably wasn't the author, but
he definitely
linked to them. 'polyglot programming' is a bit of a big meme at the moment.