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September 01, 2006
Best language?
Best language? Joel Spolsky talks about the phenomenon of people asking "What's the best language to learn?" without considering the purposes to which that language will be put, the environment in which it will function. "A debate between the C#/.NET/IIS stack and the Java/J2EE/Apache/Solaris stack and the PHP/Apache/Linux stack could go on and on for years and years and you'd never find the right answer. That's because there are so many pros and cons of all these platforms that advocates of each side can debate and debate and never get any closer to the Truth, but it sure as heck is a fun debate." Joel doesn't seem to have much awareness of Flash Platform technology, but I agree with his overall point here... in the early stages it's easier to imagine one language is right and the others wrong, but later on people usually start to think about the total ecology of the problem, and how to make a good solution with the tools at hand. (This is where Flash shines, because it fits so easily into so many ecologies.)
Posted by JohnDowdell at September 1, 2006 12:12 PM
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