I don't think the ->as_query() comment was there when I did so.
Glad I waited. Thanks, Peter.
]]>But, answering the question instead of the show, first choice is whatever language I have an available library or demo code for. I did a Startup Weekend where the product was financial transactions over SMS, so I spent the whole weekend beating on Twilio, and their sample code was in PHP, which I had never touched before. So I learned PHP.
All else being equal, it's the language where the syntax query involves my memory or grepping my own bin/ rather than Google or Stack Overflow. For me, that's Perl. And, increasingly, JavaScript.
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