Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology podcast.

This is one of your regular hosts, Neil Ford.

And I'm another one of your regular hosts, Rebecca Parsons.

And generally on the podcast, we have guests who are thought workers who have interesting

things to talk about.

But today, it's just me and Rebecca, because we have something interesting to talk about.

So we do not preclude the possibility of just having a podcast host to talk about something

that they are particularly interested in or have some

perspectives on. And that is definitely the case today. Rebecca and I are both quite passionate

about this subject of programming languages in general and some perspectives on that very specifically.

When we were chatting about podcast topics, one of the topics that I thought about

that I've been talking about for years was this realization that I made several years ago,

this is back when I was writing my book about in functional thinking, that there is no real true

one programming language to rule them all, even though a

lot of developers seem to be chasing that.

And there are lots of interesting reasons why that is.

So I'll start this by a famous quote from William Faulkner, who was a Nobel Prize winning

author.

And he very famously has a quote that says, I'm a failed poet.

He said, I tried to write poetry and I was really bad at it.

So then I tried to write short stories and I was really bad at that.

So I guess I'm a novelist.

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