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title: Wasting Less Time
teaser: |
  We think standardizing on two development languages will help us waste
  less time.
tags: news,web
author: Chad Pytel
published_on: 2005-12-05
---

As you've might have noticed from our announcement on the [thoughtbot home
page][tb-home] we've recently made the decision that we will be standardizing on
2 development languages going forward.

[tb-home]: https://thoughtbot.com/

In this post I think I'll focus more on the business angle of this decision.

We felt strongly, after coming to the conclusion time and time again, that we
were simply wasting time programming web applications in perl and php (see [my
previous post regarding <abbr title="Model View Controller">MVC</abbr>][post]).
That's not in the best interest of our customers, and not in the best interest
of our bottom line. Java (and <abbr title="Enterprise Java Beans">EJB</abbr> and
Struts) and Ruby On Rails provide us with the framework to waste less time.

[post]: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/looking-at-the-world-through-mvc-glasses

Ok, now for the big picture… it is absolutely critical – in fact, its part of
our business model, to find ways to waste less time. By using and/or developing
reusable components, frameworks, etc. it becomes possible to deliver better
applications to our customers for less time and money. This principal needs to
be applied to each level of the organization – beyond coding – to payroll,
invoicing, mundane paperwork, and so on.