By David Moore

Grow Up

Your recent post "Steve Jobs Says Fuck You Ruby Fanbois is pretty biased and very lazy. While you have tools to help you with memory management, you need a little help on the topic of perspective. Here it is:

First its factually inaccurate. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 and Snow Leopard on my Mac. Guess which one is ready to go for Ruby Development? Ubuntu's installation is easy, but its still an installation using aptitude. If Jobs hates Ruby so much or other loosely typed languages, why does the Snow Leo OS come ready for PHP/MySQL. No configuration on that assemblage either.

My first language was C, second PHP, third Java, and now I'm learning Python. This one or the other nonsense is dumb. Different languages accomplish different things. If I want to do something fast I'm all for PHP. If I want lightening speed C or Python. If I want neat elegant cross platform code then Java it is.

The great advantage to some of these languages like Ruby is that different types of people can get into the programming game. Aesthetics have a big impact on usability. Usability is what you want for the most important person in all programming projects: The end user. So cheer on with your elitist bullshit but their are plenty of hard core coders that are making some pretty excellent stuff with easy languages. Face it, the dominance of socially isolated C programmers is past. People who understand users are now in the game and its a good thing.