On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Noufal Ibrahim <nou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com> writes: > > [...] > > > I suspect it all boils down to whether I value my time and my > > customer's money over or under my preferred language. Once thats > > clear - the path ahead also is. > > This brings in another variable which is the customer (and therefore > money). That can alter the stakes quite a bit. > > Suppose you were doing something on your own time (like setting up a > blog), would you rather choose something already built (like wordpress > or jekyll) or write your own django app *just because the others are not > in your favourite language*? > While that would definitely raise the probability of me doing it in one of my favourite languages, I would decide that based on opportunity cost. ie. if it takes me x hours to set up a wordpress blog and y hours to write / custom craft my own (y being orders of magnitude bigger than x) then I would trade it off with what else could I do in those y-x hours.
Looking back, if I assessed that I would get to learn a lot about something thats on my yet to learn list - I would go write that blogging platform myself. Else I would use wordpress and use the time to learn something else. But thats also driven by the fact that I value learning something new much more than the satisfaction (without substantial incremental learning) of programming something in the environment I find most enjoyable. Dhananjay _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
