Re:You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
by iamelgringo on Saturday March 01, 2008 @09:23PM
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I'm absolutely dumbfounded that this is written by Zed Shaw. There wasn't a single expletive in the entire article!
The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow.
Anyway, nice write up of the strengths and limitations of Ruby the language, the MRI and JRuby.
Re:You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
by nickb on Sunday March 02, 2008 @01:08AM
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Many commenters on N.YC were saying that those Zed's posts were 'career suicides' and I guess they were wrong. He did pretty well by spewing hate, I must admit.
Biggest irony is that he's using Rails on his new project even though he said he didn't want anything to do with RoR and 'left' it for Factor.
To be fair, Zed also said in subsequent interviews that he'd still use Ruby to make money, but he wouldn't use for hobby coding or new, envelope pushing projects.
Re:You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
by ericb on Sunday March 02, 2008 @10:44AM
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Agreed, not only is he a good writer, his article hits the nail on the head for the areas where ruby has an advantage. He manages to nail down a diverse list of areas.
On a different note, I suspect he might be bipolar.
Re:You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
by neilcauldwell on Sunday March 02, 2008 @08:00AM
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Couldn't agree more.
Zed hits the nail on the head when he highlights the passion for Ruby among new programmers. I just started working with Rails, and everyone I've been learning from is infatuated with Ruby (and Rails, to some extent).
The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow.
Anyway, nice write up of the strengths and limitations of Ruby the language, the MRI and JRuby.
Biggest irony is that he's using Rails on his new project even though he said he didn't want anything to do with RoR and 'left' it for Factor.
To be fair, Zed also said in subsequent interviews that he'd still use Ruby to make money, but he wouldn't use for hobby coding or new, envelope pushing projects.
On a different note, I suspect he might be bipolar.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bipolar_disorder_symptoms_tr...
Zed hits the nail on the head when he highlights the passion for Ruby among new programmers. I just started working with Rails, and everyone I've been learning from is infatuated with Ruby (and Rails, to some extent).
"The truth is: Any language that's Turing Complete and supports enough language features can solve any problem."
Really? Wow, thanks Zed.