<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Mahesh Paolini-Subramanya <<a href="mailto:mahesh@dieswaytoofast.com" class="">mahesh@dieswaytoofast.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Slightly off-tangent, but you might want to first consider <i class="">why</i> your manager asked you for this, and tailor your answer appropriately :-)</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>A good point. In my experience, this question is often based on the worry that if you use Erlang you won't be able to hire any developers. I haven't heard many satisfying answers to this, either. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Fairly well-known is <a href="http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html" class="">http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html</a> where Paul Graham suggests that hiring for a more esoteric language mostly filters out candidates that you wouldn't want to hire anyway. That seems to work better as a justification after making the choice, rather than an argument in favor of picking a language.</div></body></html>