OT: Polyglot programming article?
Jay Levitt
somewhere, arguing that corporations (like Google) should stop restricting
their developers to two or three specific programming languages.
I specifically remember it making the point that even if we only program a
web app in "one language", like C++ or Java, we really end up programing in
about 30 languages anyway: batch scripts, shell scripts, Apache config,
SQL, macros, templates, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON or XML, etc.
Can anyone remember this article? It was NOT:
- Martin Fowler's OneLanguage article on his bliki
-
- Any of the "learn a new language every year" posts; this was focused on
company policy, not developer enrichment
- Neal Ford's Polyglot Programming post (it was longer than that)
- Bob Warfield's SmoothSpan post
Please let me know if you know the one I mean. (And if you feel the need
to argue for/against polyglot programming, please, PLEASE, at least rename
the subject line.)
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Richard Conroy
> About three or four months ago, I ran across a great article/blog post
> somewhere, arguing that corporations (like Google) should stop restricting
> their developers to two or three specific programming languages.
Well it was not specifically addressing google, who have 4 canonical languages,
> I specifically remember it making the point that even if we only program a
> web app in "one language", like C++ or Java, we really end up programing in
> about 30 languages anyway: batch scripts, shell scripts, Apache config,
> SQL, macros, templates, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON or XML, etc.
>
> Can anyone remember this article? It was NOT:
>
> - Martin Fowler's OneLanguage article on his bliki
I would look at Tim Brays writings. He probably wasn't the author, but
he definitely
linked to them. 'polyglot programming' is a bit of a big meme at the moment.
Jay Levitt
> On Dec 25, 2007 4:04 PM, Jay Levitt <jay+...@jay.fm> wrote:
>> About three or four months ago, I ran across a great article/blog post
>> somewhere, arguing that corporations (like Google) should stop restricting
>> their developers to two or three specific programming languages.
>
> Well it was not specifically addressing google, who have 4 canonical languages,
I stand corrected. Two or three or *four* specific programming languages
:)
>
>> I specifically remember it making the point that even if we only program a
>> web app in "one language", like C++ or Java, we really end up programing in
>> about 30 languages anyway: batch scripts, shell scripts, Apache config,
>> SQL, macros, templates, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON or XML, etc.
>>
>> Can anyone remember this article? It was NOT:
>>
>> - Martin Fowler's OneLanguage article on his bliki
>
> I would look at Tim Brays writings. He probably wasn't the author, but
> he definitely
> linked to them. 'polyglot programming' is a bit of a big meme at the moment.
Yeah, but I seem to remember it using either another term, or no term at
all... wasn't Tim Bray, but it was someone like him. Wasn't Steve Yegge
either. And Googling for things like "C Java script developers languages"
is pretty futile.
Argh, now it's gonna drive me nuts, like "Who was that guy with the shirt
in that movie?"
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
>
> Argh, now it's gonna drive me nuts, like "Who was that guy with the shirt
> in that movie?"
The guy with the shirt in that movie was Alec Guinness.
>
MonkeeSage
wrote:
Heh. Well, 3PO is fluent in over six million languages, and if that's
not a polyglot, I don't know what is. ;)
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
<ducking>
Martin DeMello
>
> I specifically remember it making the point that even if we only program a
> web app in "one language", like C++ or Java, we really end up programing in
> about 30 languages anyway: batch scripts, shell scripts, Apache config,
> SQL, macros, templates, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON or XML, etc.
>
> Can anyone remember this article? It was NOT:
Ringing a vague bell - I might have seen it on reddit. Try posting an
"ask reddit" on programming.reddit.com - someone there is bound to
know.
martin
Jay Levitt
Now you're REALLY dating yourself... for me, the guy with the shirt in that
movie is usually Steve Buscemi or J.T. Walsh :)
(There actually used to be a web site called "Hey! It's that Guy!" with
lists of character actors. It was great fun to browse. Sadly, it seems to
be defunct and the domain hijacked.)
Speaking of hijacked, since we've hijacked the thread, I just want to put
this out there: I really want to know the name of the voice actor who did
the Oxy-10 commercials (and Britches Great Outdoors, and a few others).
Someday, someone will Google this and tell me. Maybe. Even the brand
manager at Oxy doesn't know (he's new).
He sounds like this:
http://www.jay.fm/files/voice/oxy10%20-%201984.mp3
Martin DeMello
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:58:22 -0500, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> >> Argh, now it's gonna drive me nuts, like "Who was that guy with the shirt
> >> in that movie?"
> >
> > The guy with the shirt in that movie was Alec Guinness.
>
> Now you're REALLY dating yourself... for me, the guy with the shirt in that
> movie is usually Steve Buscemi or J.T. Walsh :)
All I know is it wasn't Hugh Jackman :)
martin
Clifford Heath
> I ran across a great article/blog post...
Hmm, probably not mine, though I've used and written about such things
for years... I'm also the author of the Polyglot gem on rubyforge :-).
Might be a basis for a search though...
Clifford Heath.