That sounds like a good approach to me.
Once upon a time, my company was a hodegepodge of development ... Tcl, Perl, C, Java, etc. A few years ago we rebuilt everything in Java, and "standardized" on being a "Java shop" so we start hiring "Java Developers" ... biggest mistake we ever made in my opinion. Now people have to write little mini-java apps just to do some log crunching because they don't know any other way.
Hire smart people; have them write code. Worry about the language they use somewhere in between -- not before, not after.
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