On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:26:13 -0700
Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mike Meyer
> <mwm-keyword-googlegroups.620...@mired.org> wrote:
> > We're facing that now, and with a mono-lingual system, you know
> > everyone can contribute to any part of the project. If different parts
> > are in different languages, then people working in one area won't
> > necessarily be able to help with other parts should they need the
> > help.
> Solution: don't have monolingual programmers on your team :)
What, we shouldn't hire Americans? :-)
That only helps if everyone actually knows all the languages involved
(we're looking at Ruby, Python and I'm trying to make a case for
Clojure - but the critical language for my part of it is going to be
XPath and/or XQuery).
Finding good people is hard enough that wanting them to be good in
three or four languages is enough to break the camels back. If you've
got time to cross-train them - then you don't need
> I do understand the forces at play here. I've worked with a lot of
> monolingual teams and seen these same discussions about wishing we had
> framework X from language Y. I just cringe at the work invested in
> recreating all these frameworks in so many languages - especially when
> we're (nearly) all on the same JVM and we _could_ leverage these other
> languages / frameworks as-is. It just seems like so much wasted effort
Except (in least in this case) some of the languages aren't on the
JVM. In fact, I'm starting to get pressure against Jython and Clojure
because of the legal mess that's starting to embroil the Java
world. Way off topic, but anyone got any advice on *that*?
<mike
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