[socal-piggies] What would make you try (or not try) a new programming language?

[Michael Elkins]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 03:53:11PM -0700, Steve Wedig wrote:
>I hope this isn't spam, but I asked this question on Stack Overflow today,
>and just realized I'd be quite interested in how this group would answer it:
>
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4018867/what-would-make-you-try-or-not-try-a-new-programming-language

The responses you've received so far summarize my thoughts fairly well, 
although they leave out perhaps the biggest one: as a practical matter, it 
would be very difficult to use a new language given the need to work 
cooperatively with other people.

I do dabble quite a bit, but only when there is some signifcant difference in 
programming paradigm/style.  And only for personal pet-projects.

me