From: Jay Levitt Date: 2007-12-26T12:30:17+09:00 Subject: Re: OT: Polyglot programming article? On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:40:07 -0500, Richard Conroy wrote: > On Dec 25, 2007 4:04 PM, Jay Levitt 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 stand corrected. Two or three or *four* specific programming 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. Yeah, but I seem to remember it using either another term, or no term at all... wasn't Tim Bray, but it was someone like him. Wasn't Steve Yegge either. And Googling for things like "C Java script developers languages" is pretty futile. Argh, now it's gonna drive me nuts, like "Who was that guy with the shirt in that movie?" -- Jay Levitt | Boston, MA | My character doesn't like it when they Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit. http://www.jay.fm | - Kristoffer