OT: Polyglot programming article?

About three or four months ago, I ran across a great article/blog post
somewhere, arguing that corporations (like Google) should stop restricting
their developers to two or three specific programming languages.

I specifically remember it making the point that even if we only program a
web app in "one language", like C++ or Java, we really end up programing in
about 30 languages anyway: batch scripts, shell scripts, Apache config,
SQL, macros, templates, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON or XML, etc.  

Can anyone remember this article?  It was NOT:

- Martin Fowler's OneLanguage article on his bliki
- 
- Any of the "learn a new language every year" posts; this was focused on
company policy, not developer enrichment
- Neal Ford's Polyglot Programming post (it was longer than that)
- Bob Warfield's SmoothSpan post

Please let me know if you know the one I mean.  (And if you feel the need
to argue for/against polyglot programming, please, PLEASE, at least rename
the subject line.) 

-- 
Jay Levitt                |
Boston, MA                | My character doesn't like it when they
Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit.
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Well it was not specifically addressing google, who have 4 canonical languages,


I would look at Tim Brays writings. He probably wasn't the author, but
he definitely
linked to them. 'polyglot programming' is a bit of a big meme at the moment.

I stand corrected.  Two or three or *four* specific programming languages
:)


Yeah, but I seem to remember it using either another term, or no term at
all... wasn't Tim Bray, but it was someone like him.  Wasn't Steve Yegge
either.  And Googling for things like "C Java script developers languages"
is pretty futile.

Argh, now it's gonna drive me nuts, like "Who was that guy with the shirt
in that movie?"

-- 
Jay Levitt                |
Boston, MA                | My character doesn't like it when they
Faster: jay at jay dot fm | cry or shout or hit.
 http://www.**--****.com/          | - Kristoffer 

The guy with the shirt in that movie was Alec Guinness.

On Dec 26, 1:58 am, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >





Heh. Well, 3PO is fluent in over six million languages, and if that's
not a polyglot, I don't know what is. ;)

six million? that's more like a poly *glut*

<ducking>

Ringing a vague bell - I might have seen it on reddit. Try posting an
"ask reddit" on programming.reddit.com - someone there is bound to
know.

martin

Hmm, probably not mine, though I've used and written about such things
for years... I'm also the author of the Polyglot gem on rubyforge :-).
Might be a basis for a search though...

Clifford Heath.