From: Eugene Kalenkovich <rubify@...>
Date: 2007-10-04T13:30:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby vs. PHP

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> wrote in message 
news:4702FCB0.8000404@cesmail.net...
> Chad Perrin wrote:
>> Amazon's hiring seems to focus more on Perl than any other single
>> language, actually -- and has for a long time.  As such, while the amount
>> of dynamic language usage may actually be increasing, I think one might
>> better represent the situation by saying that Amazon has used dynamic
>> languages to a significant degree for a long time.
>>
>> That's "long time" in Intarweb years, of course.
>
> Two tidbits about Amazon:
>
> 1. I don't remember how I stumbled across it, but somewhere in the great 
> electronic beyond there is a blog posting by someone who describes the 
> hiring process at Amazon. One of the things they look for is someone who 
> can bang out a quick solution to massive text crunching problems using 
> regular expressions, either in Perl or more primitive command line tools. 
> I don't recall whether Python or Ruby were "acceptable".
>

Sorry for OT, but I did not start it :). The intervew question for quick 
text crunching came from the same SteveY. His huge productivity in writing 
blogs has a significant impact on any company he works for :).
What you use at the interview - perl, python, ruby or [put here whatever you 
want] - does not make any difference, as long as you use it right (and have 
in your backpack at least one of more conventional OO languages too) :)

-- EK