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Re:Why Ruby is not my favorite language by blasdel on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @06:08PM (#391992)
This is at a company where they listed 11 (!!) fantasy languages in the job description. They want candidates to be the type of people who do projects in novel languages just because, that can reason about programming language design issues, that have well-founded reasons for not liking things.

Yes, it would bait idiots who "don't like C because you can only define variables at the top of a function", or "don't like Java because you have to put classes in different files" -- but that's intentional.

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Re:Why Ruby is not my favorite language by sharkbrainguy on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @06:13PM (#392002)
"11 fantasy languages"

As in 11 not-real languages. Languages that don't exist?

I'm not sure I follow.

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Re:Why Ruby is not my favorite language by blasdel on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @06:25PM (#392021)
As in 11 academic languages that you would get paid to use in your fantasies (the company advertising the job doesn't use most of them, they just want coworkers that like them too).
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Re:Why Ruby is not my favorite language by michaelneale on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @01:25AM (#392566)
oh no, all this time I have been putting many classes in one file. I guess I should have compiled more often.
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