Not So Stupid

Joel is wrong when he says that you should pick a safe language (Java, C#, PHP or maybe python) if “someone is going to get fired”.

He almost got it right: You should go with a safe language if you’re afraid of being fired for picking the wrong language.

And in fact, in that case, I can’t understand why would you pick PHP or python. VisualBasic, sure, but using any other scripting language is probably a career-killing.

Thought #1: “enterprise software development” is that particular kind of software development where the process matters more than the results.

Thought #2: “enterprise software” it’s the same category that includes those billions of lines of COBOL code that used just two digits to store year values.