NYCPHP Meetup

[Paul A Houle]

Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
>
> Until you can amortize away that period of negative productivity while 
> you're switching languages, it's almost always better to stick with 
> what you know, unless there's a really really compelling other reason 
> (like: what you want to do can be done in 10% of the time in <new 
> language>)
>
>
    It's not so much the learning that I'm concerned about,  it's the 
rewriting of the problem-specific toolkits that I use.
>
> Erlang?
    Yes,  Erlang is one of the few.