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Re:How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer by yummyfajitas on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @04:47PM (#1836023)
Not only that, but the specific example they gave is even worse.

Ruby vs Python? My only opinion on Ruby vs Python is that I wish one would die so that we don't have two utterly similar languages fragmenting the same niche and causing lots of duplicated effort (e.g., ruby oauth and python-oauth2). Does that make me a bad programmer?

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Re:How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer by protothomas on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @04:52PM (#1836040)
I may be wrong, but I think that reply would probably qualify you as a good programmer based on the first point.
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Re:How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer by barry-cotter on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @05:03AM (#1837838)
How many niches are there anyway?

<Lisp, Lua, Smalltalk> <Haskell, Ocaml> <Python, Ruby, Perl>

I'm not even sure how if C and C++ belong in the same class, never mind Java.

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