A cura di @MostroDeiBiscotti.

Un articolo pubblicato su MIT Technology Review analizza il rapporto fra linguaggi di programmazione, programmatori e aziende. Il caso Facebook – PHP, la storia di OCaml e la psicologia delle organizzazioni.

Software developers as a species tend to be convinced that programming languages have a grip on the mind strong enough to change the way you approach problems—even to change which problems you think to solve. It’s how they size up companies, products, their peers: “What language do you use?” […]

If you want to know why Facebook looks and works the way it does and what kinds of things it can do for and to us next, you need to know something about PHP, the programming language Mark Zuckerberg built it with.