From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T05:37:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 05:35:17AM +0900, Phlip wrote:
> Joel Spolsky wrote:
> 
> > [Ruby is slow] so if you become The Next MySpace,
> > you'll be buying 5 times as many boxes as the .NET guy
> > down the hall.
> 
> I can't believe I missed another rebuttal here.
> 
> If you become the next MySpace, you are done! Just getting to that Critical 
> Mass point is 98% of the battle. Once you are there, you have many more 
> options than when you started.
> 
> So, once again, Joel is also taking a slam at Lean Software Development 
> here...

I'm also amused that Joel didn't realize MySpace got where it did by
utterly failing to take the approach Joel advises.

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