Well, why not? "My team and I are familiar with these tools and confident that we can use them to deliver the desired result" seems like a fine reason to call something the right tool for the job.
They aren't the same thing but there's basically no room between "these are the tools I know"-thinking and "if all you have is a hammer"-thinking.
Freely admit this is somewhat irrelevant though as most languages are the difference between a felling-ax and a splitting-ax or two sizes of screwdriver, as opposed to hammer vs drill.
Well, I assume most people have a handful of tools they are familiar with and choose from among them (although the proliferation JavaScript-based stuff absolutely everywhere might call that assumption into question).
Freely admit this is somewhat irrelevant though as most languages are the difference between a felling-ax and a splitting-ax or two sizes of screwdriver, as opposed to hammer vs drill.