From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T05:41:47+09:00
Subject: Re: What does NASA use Ruby for?

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Sean Russell wrote:

> What inquiring minds in *this* group want to know, is whether NASA is hiring
> Ruby programmers.
>
> What could possibly be cooler than being a Ruby programmer *at* NASA, I ask
> you.  Man.  Can you imagine?  "What do you do for a living?"
> "I'm a Ruby programmer for NASA."
>
> Now, if you'll excuse me, my fantasies and I need to be alone for a while.

here in boulder there are alot of research facilities.  they hire fortran
programmers, perl programmers, c programmers, etc.  i got hired as a perl and
c programmer for noaa for a position requiring a phd in biology (i don't have
phd and have barely studied biology).  after about two days my boss came in
and said 'can you do this task in two hours' - i said 'sure', but only in ruby
(which was the truth).  the task was completed and i haven't written a
character of perl since.  moral: research facilities are often open to new
approaches and job descriptions are often not correct - so it's not a bad
idea to just go for it!

regards.

-a
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