From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-03-19T17:11:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Paul Graham recommends Ruby

Hi,

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:57:10 +0900, Premshree Pillai
<premshree.pillai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:54:41 +0900, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Paul wrote an article about his recommendations for current
> > undergraduate C.S. students.  And plugs Ruby while he's at it.
> >
> > http://paulgraham.com/college.html
> >
> > "... What you should learn to get a job depends on the kind you want.
> > If you want to work in a big company, learn how to hack Blub on
> > Windows. If you want to work at a cool little company or research lab,
> > you'll do better to learn Ruby on Linux. And if you want to start your
> 
> I don't think he "recommends Ruby". He probably means something to the
> effect of "use a dynamic language like Python, or Ruby".
> 
> As much as all of us would like Mr. Graham to "recommend" Ruby, I
> think it's for the better if we don't draw conclusions.

My take is that he sees Ruby as a good medium to delivering some good
results, because since some articles ago by him, he has mentioned
Ruby, together with other languages. But in this particular article,
"college.html", he mentioned Ruby alone, because in the context of
small companies and research labs, Ruby has more probability of being
used, while Perl and Python feature in bigger companies already.

It's like the Nasdaq -- some indices go down and up, depending on the
trend. :-) But these indices are kind of irrelevant to the majority of
the people.

The Perl and Python people can keep ignoring Ruby, till the trend
changes really big. :-)

Cheers,
Joao