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Sure. Wild switching of languages is infuriating to your partners.

Car analogy: it's like insisting you need to park all 7 of your vehicles — car, van, truck, harley, two bikes and a wheelchair — in the prime spots in front of the office. You'd be out of a job in an hour.

And knowing all the languages helps you. (If only to successfully talk your partner out of wildly slinging languages around.)

Ok, better example: to write a web app, you need a server-side language. Plus javascript. Plus CSS. Plus multiple browser interfaces and their toolsets.

I think the article totally misses the point: polyglot programming is a fact of life. Adapt or perish. We could debate the relative merits of _fully_ _equivalent_ languages, but I think it's linkbait to demonize "polyglot programming."



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