[slee029]

this article holds especially true for non-technical entrepreneurs deciding which language to choose. while the supply of developers may be lower for languages such as ruby or python, you find a much more enthusiastic crowd of developers who in general seem to already have graduated from another language such as php. thus, from a business non-technical background, by choosing an enthusiast type language such as ruby it made it easier to narrow down quality developers with the right mentality as a technical co-founder than say a language with a large supply of developers such as php.

[inovica]

That's exactly what I (business guy) did. I learned Python myself also though, which made a difference. Reading threads on sites such as this had already convinced me of the power of Python (over PHP) and I put together a couple of demo apps to be developed in Python. Some of our guys have moved to it, some have been more resistant, but the guys who have seem much more focused on what they need to do.