The Right Tool For The Job

Do You Know Which Programming Language To Use?

January 24, 2012

The Right Tool For The Job

By Bryan Young

It is always important to plan your application before beginning to write it, but one thing that often gets overlooked is the choice of programming language. All tradesmen have a "toolbox" in which they keep the tools of their trade. Developers are a bit different in that our toolboxes are the languages we use to create our applicaitions.

There are many languages at our disposal, but many developers have one (sometimes two) languages that they will go to every time. For me, that language is PHP. It is where most of my experience lies, and where I feel most comfortable programming. There is nothing inherently wrong in this; every carpenter has a favorite hammer, and every plumber has a favorite wrench. The problem comes when you are trying to use your favorite hammer as a wrench.

Recently I began programming a project in PHP which would require multiple threads to run concurrently. Now, for anyone who knows PHP, you know that is no small task to accomplish. That is simply because PHP was never written to do that kind...

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