Programmers or software architects will undoubtedly agree that the introduction of Rapid Application Development had a profound impact, not only in terms of the speed of development, but also in the quality and consistency of the completed application. Having done assembly programming in college, as well as written Windows applications in C and then higher-level languages like Visual Basic, I can certainly appreciate the nuances of the various approaches.

Imagine my surprise when I read that Sony, in the design of the PlayStation 3, actually admitted to making things hard for developers. The idea appears to be that making it easy for programmers to access all the functions of the admittedly powerful PS3 platform is not desirable.

That kind of boggles my mind, given that programming languages are continually evolved or created specifically to make code creation easier and faster. Think of PHP, Perl and Python, for example.

Now that we're talking about programming languages though, just how many of them can you write code in? In fact, is it even important or advantageous to "know" multiple programming languages? I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this matter. - Paul