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Wed, 20 Dec 2006

Grow some balls

Like many other software developers, I can feel the industry's slow, but steady progression toward Lisp and Smalltalk, also known as "languages of the gods". Giles shares some excellent stories and rants along the way...

If there's anything godlike about using Lisp or Smalltalk when the rest of the world is on Java and C#, it isn't the skill level required. It's the balls. Standing up to the rest of the world and telling them, "your technology decisions are bad and I'm going to use a language that doesn't suck" is a very unusual move.

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