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Re^2: This isn't a job offer.

by hossman (Prior)
on Apr 03, 2007 at 05:51 UTC ( [id://607977]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: This isn't a job offer.
in thread This isn't a job offer.

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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Re^3: This isn't a job offer.
by neilwatson (Priest) on Apr 03, 2007 at 19:10 UTC
    I once saw 14MB of Java libraries and code to parse some text files. The same job could have been done in Perl, Sed or Awk in less than a thousand lines. Every job is a nail when all you have a a hammer.

    Neil Watson
    watson-wilson.ca

      I wonder who were the programmers. You can reimplement Perl 10 times over in 14 MB of Java code...

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