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By villane
via villane.wordpress.com
Published: Mar 15 2008 / 19:25
Frankly, I’m a bit tired of hearing the hammer and nails metaphor and “right tool for the job” from developers when they talk about programming languages. While there’s nothing wrong with selecting the right tool when there clearly is one, I think the phrase is often misused and seems to be a cheap explanation to justify personal preferences and subjective decisions seemingly objectively.
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Comments
jtheory replied ago:
Some good points (a programming language is not a tool like a hammer), but why point out the flaws in the tool analogy, then dig into another tool-based analogy that's equally flawed?
Is it so hard to talk about choosing a central programming language for a project without the strained analogies?
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