Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub

Re:Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub by nwmcsween on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:15PM (#3664288)

"This is why I refuse to learn Ruby. I don't want to be associated with that community. "Learn Ruby if you want to be associated with a bunch of people who call themselves Rockstar Programmers.""

You refuse to learn a language due to how a project acts? Have you ever read the {open,free,net}BSD or Linux mailing lists? You're not going to make it far in software development with an attitude like that.

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Re:Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub by pp19dd on Monday March 05, 2012 @02:49PM (#3668041)

It's a fairly rational argument to have a preference/affinity for programming languages based on communities surrounding them. He stated his preferences, and that's perfectly fine. You might have been too quick in passing that judgement.

Unless a quantum computing breakthrough alters the way we control computers, there will never be a one-language to rule them all. We'll continue having a wide diaspora and will take evolutionary steps to bind ideas together. Preemptive and comprehensive security model might be just one of those ideas.

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Re:Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub by nwmcsween on Thursday March 08, 2012 @12:23AM (#3678697)

No it's not rational to assume a language isn't worth learning due to how some people act in fact it's ignorant. You use a tool due to it's merit not due to presumption of how everyone acts.

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Re:Hacked: commit to rails master on GitHub by Joeboy on Monday March 05, 2012 @07:32AM (#3666293)

I'm not intimate with the Ruby community, but the quality / quantity / culture of the community surrounding a programming language seems like a reasonable consideration to me.

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