Re:Screen Credit Card Processors By Gateway
by rdouble on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @03:53PM
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This happens all the time.
If you need to do numerical analysis in a scripting language, you pick python because it has numpy.
I once had to make a QR Code reader and writer back when it was only seen in Japan and the only library available was for Java, so I picked that.
Recently I had some ruby code that parsed a file, but I needed to pump it into a proprietary database with only a JDBC connection... so I picked JRuby.
Often picking a new language is much easier than rewriting a particular library.
If you need to do numerical analysis in a scripting language, you pick python because it has numpy.
I once had to make a QR Code reader and writer back when it was only seen in Japan and the only library available was for Java, so I picked that.
Recently I had some ruby code that parsed a file, but I needed to pump it into a proprietary database with only a JDBC connection... so I picked JRuby.
Often picking a new language is much easier than rewriting a particular library.