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Re:Why I Left Google by tikhonj on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:53AM (#4052432)
There's nothing wrong with having a uniform set of languages. I just wish they were good languages and not Java or Python.

Having everybody use their own programming language would be crazy. Unless they're domain-specific languages, in which case it would actually be very cool.

Still, if I'm to be bound by a language choice, I'd really like to be the one making it. Which is why I think working for a tiny startup would be more fun.

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Re:Why I Left Google by martinvanaken on Friday June 01, 2012 @08:49AM (#4053082)
It is important to know your own preferences, but as you said yourself, then you need to make your choices accordingly : it could be the startup, or aiming for a position in a big company where you have something to say about those choices. Both are interesting.

For the first point, I will not start a discussion about what is a "good" language (a large part of it being in the eye of the beholder and in the requirements of the projects).

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