No, this is not a comment on English-only legislation for the United States (this is /tech...), just a link to a great little rant by Joel about which programming language to use for your software development project.

In the midst of my network design work, an application challenge has presented itself, and I'm diving back into Python to develop a solution.  So I was particularly interested to see Joel identify Python as the fourth "half"-alternative that might be appropriate for developing web-based apps "(C#, Java, PHP, and a half Python)".  I turned to Python because with my limited experience, I knew I could use it to expose some COM objects and crypto libraries that I needed for this task.  And basically because I'm still in the "if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail" stage, and I'm confident with Python I can bang away at a problem and eventually get it into place.  I know this is antithetical to good programming practices, but as I've repeated over and over, "I'm not a developer, I'm a hack."

Tags: programming, languages, Python, hack