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Re:What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder by andreyf on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @03:12PM (#1633807)
Strong experience in a specific language isn't necessary. I know it's anecdotal, but reddit started out being written in Lisp, then switched to Python pretty early on. Many great tech people I know have no problem moving from language to language, or framework to framework.
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Re:What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder by mark_l_watson on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @05:01PM (#1634138)
Originally writing Reddit in Common Lisp gave Reddit a lot of Buzz - that probably helped the site take off.
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Re:What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder by klochner on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @05:12PM (#1634177)
that reminds me of the quote:

   "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
you want your co-founder to choose the best language/tech stack for the job. A c++ developer is fine for a web-app if he's smart and is open to learning new languages.
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Re:What To Look For In A Technical Co-Founder by markstansbury on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @09:25PM (#1634750)
I like that quote.
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