From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-10-05T02:52:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Recent Criticism about Ruby (Scalability, etc.)

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 06:19:19 +0900, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> In other words, I was assuming reasonably good code as a baseline,
> and you were assuming reasonably bad code as a baseline.  These
> incompatible assumptions may be influenced by our respective work
> environments.

Yes, I think that's the crux of it.

> I'll expand on my position, then:
> 
>   1. Hire good programmers.
> 
>   2. Have them write good code.
> 
>   3. Throw hardware at the scaling problem, because your good code
>   written by good programmers can handle it.

Perhaps we've also got slightly different audiences in mind --
"hire good programmers" is not advice I'd normally give to a
programmer.

-mental