Why do developers choose one programming language over another for a given task?

为什么对一项给定的任务，开发者会偏向于选择某一门语言？

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A couple of really interesting consequences of that, by the way, one of them is, it says, anything you can do in one programming language you can do in another programming language.

一些真正有趣的后果是，顺便说一句，其中之一是，它说你在一种编程语言中，能做的事情，在另一种语言中也能做。

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This is a choice that is always present when you compile from one programming language into another: how much work to do in the compiler, and how much to leave for the generated language at runtime.

这是将一种编程语言编译为另一种编程语言时所面临的常见选择：在编译器中有多少工作要做，还有多少工作是留给生成的语言在运行时完成的。

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Last month,students from one hundred three universities in eighty-eight countries took part in an international computer programming contest.

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A couple of really interesting consequences of that, by the way, one of them is, it says, anything you can do in one programming language you can do in another programming language.

一些真正有趣的后果是，顺便说一句，其中之一是，它说你在一种编程语言中,能做的事情,在另一种语言中也能做。

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Well, my usual style of programming would be to implement the one that's lowest down in the hierarchy near the bottom.

一般我的编程风格是,先构建等级中最低的东西,也就是靠近地层的东西。

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