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2008/6/26 Tom Gidden <tom at gidden.net>:
> I've seen a number of projects that have gone bad due to inappropriate
> choice of language/platform, purely because the criteria for choice
> was the skillset of the developers, rather than actually choosing the
> right tool for the job at hand.

I've never seen or even heard of it happen from anybody I trust to be reliable,
99 times out of 100 the technology is the very least of your problems
and the developers would have to be using totally the wrong technology,
i.e. Perl for writing an FPS shoot em up on an X Box, COBOL for a
web2.0 social network.

> Tail wagging the dog, and all that.

Now this is only a rule of thumb, but on the whole frameworks and
platforms aren't different
enough for any benefits to overcome the cost of relearning and
implementing a new project
as a bunch of newbies, rather than with expertise of your tools.

Again, my experience, and from the sources I consider worth taking seriously.

> Even worse is when the _project_ itself is chosen purely on the
> technology matching the individual developer's skillset, which seems
> really backward to me.

Now, that's just plain silly.

A.

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