Java for Everything
June 1, 2014
I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming
language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language
for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This
was clearly a way to avoid actually naming a language for fear of picking one I
didn’t like.
If the interviewee gave an answer at all, it was, “I’m most familiar with
language X,” which didn’t answer my question either.
At the time I would myself have replied something like, “I like Python best
because it makes me happy to program in it, but I only use it in such-and-such