2009/10/25 Magnus Therning
On 24/10/09 23:08, Iain Barnett wrote:
If you're in business, you're trying to keep your costs lower than your income. That means that a language with a stable code base, good/many libraries, and a large pool of developers is a good choice.
I'm not sure it necessarily means that. [...] Having a smaller pool of developers to choose from is not necessarily bad, as long as it is offset by a higher ratio of first-rate developers.
I think you also have to consider how committed you are to retaining developers. Plenty of people aren't; for them Java and PHP are feasible where Haskell (and RoR) aren't.
Also, as I'm sure you've found out re libraries, more isn't necessarily better.
Indeed -- if libraries were sufficient, CPAN would have been enough to keep Python and Ruby from ever growing into the force they now are. -- Jason Dusek