From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-01-02T10:49:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet

On 1 ene, 08:23, Marc Heiler <sheve...@linuxmail.org> wrote:
>   "Like Zed, we all have some differences with other users in the
>   "community. Zed didn't stab all the members of it, nor Ruby nor Rails,
>   "but lot of folks must agree that Rails is becoming the next Java."
>
> Well he wrote:
>
>   'I don't want to be a "Ruby guy" anymore, and will probably start
> getting into more Python, Factor, and Lua in the coming months'
>
> And to me this sounds as if he hates Ruby as language, but without
> giving any concrete evidence what he dislikes about ruby as language.

"don't want to be a 'ruby guy'" doesn't mean he hates the language. he
just hate being labeled like that.

In my case I don't hate but really piss me off that every time I try
to get feedback on proper support for Windows (which I professionally
use), get silly answers like "hey, move to a real OS".

I don't insult your OS choice, whatever distro of Linux you're using,
nor even critize users using OSX and telling us that's the OS every
developer should be using. Come on guys, di-ver-si-ty.

Also, underneath that "angry filled post" there is some logic. If
you're a freelance developer, you should have feld that sometime, the
anxiety of job to put food on your table (and pay the bills), but
there is a also the need of recognition from your employers and your
peers, and not being used just for your name.

Have a nice year!

--
Luis Lavena