From: Chris Patti <cpatti@...>
Date: 2005-09-21T01:26:27+09:00
Subject: Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C#

On 9/15/05, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rubies:
> 
> Here's a nice advocacy anecdote. A colleague vents, "So they hired him to
> write the GUI, and he insisted on using C# because he claimed it would be
> portable. So after he wrote a ton of cruft and we got rid of him, I tried to
> build Mono for Linux, and there were no RPMs, so I know how to build source
> right? The dependency chain was a mile long, and I spent almost two weeks at
> it..."
> 
> That's like 20 or 30 engineering hours down the drain, folks...
> 
> Me: "Jeeze this stuff is obvious; that's why I always get permission before
> picking a language."
> 
> Colleague: "Of course!"
> 
> Me: "Except Ruby." [He knows I maintain portability by actually porting as I
> go...]
> 
> Colleague: "Natch."
> 
> Don'tcha just love backing the winning horse that everyone else thinks is
> going to lose? The Java & .NET sectors of the industry are in a pitiful
> condition, and the bosses who grew up with C++ just keep asking for more...

Beg to differ.  I can't speak to C#, but Java is thriving.  Look in
academic course catalogs. Look in the help wanteds.  Look at the huge
body of open source java there is out there.

Tool to task folks, they all have their place.  Consider promoting
Ruby's finer points and extolling its virtues rather than slamming the
competition.

-Chris 


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