You know, you're right; there's no such thing as an ephemeral language or platform. Why, look at all new projects started every day in QBasic, Tcl, or Turbo Pascal. I'm sure people will be building stuff with Ruby forty…
Ruby doesn't teach you anything if you already know Lisp + CLOS or Smalltalk.
Absolutely. I sat out the Ruby/Rails hype cycle and am none the worse for it. Life is too short to waste time learning ephemeral tech like Ruby, Node.js, or MongoDB. When considering whether to learn a new language or…
You know, you're right; there's no such thing as an ephemeral language or platform. Why, look at all new projects started every day in QBasic, Tcl, or Turbo Pascal. I'm sure people will be building stuff with Ruby forty…
Ruby doesn't teach you anything if you already know Lisp + CLOS or Smalltalk.
Absolutely. I sat out the Ruby/Rails hype cycle and am none the worse for it. Life is too short to waste time learning ephemeral tech like Ruby, Node.js, or MongoDB. When considering whether to learn a new language or…