From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T06:06:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming


On 06-09-09, at 16:37, Chad Perrin wrote:

> 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.

Perhaps it's just me who sees this, but to me Joel seems like a troll  
-- and not a very good one either.

--
Jeremy Tregunna
jtregunna@blurgle.ca