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		tshadwell on May 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made a command-line Slack chat client I'd agree with you, but somehow arcanist manages to be written in PHP.

masukomi on May 8, 2015 [–]

many impressive things are written with the wrong / a bad tool. That doesn't mean it's a strategy that should be followed.

GrinningFool on May 9, 2015 | [–]

On the other hand, it could just mean that definitions of "the right tool" are more arbitrary than not.

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