Paul Graham Time Machine | December 13th, 2007
Paul Graham:
To the extent there is any discomfort about the language you used, you can often use the pointy-haired bosses’ mistaken ideas against them. If they take as an axiom that “all languages are equivalent,” (if this is true, btw, we’re all wasting our time talking about language design on this list) they’ll easily believe that it will be a trivial matter to port your code to some more boss-friendly language, and that the language your software is written in is thus no serious barrier to acquisition.
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