From: Jim Freeze <jfreeze@...>
Date: 2002-07-18T20:08:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Selling ruby to my boss

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:09:33PM +0900, Tord Kallqvist Romstad wrote:
> Francis Hwang <sera@fhwang.net> writes:
> 
> I am working as a Common Lisp programmer in a major Norwegian Internet
> service provider.  We have developed server software in Lisp for about
> five years (I am a relatively new member of the team; I started
> working here in April last year).  Finding new Lisp programmers has
> never been a problem.  Although few people know the language, those
> who do are usually very skillful.  Being familiar with a very powerful
> and dynamic language, they also tend to intensely dislike working in
> mainstream languages like Java, Perl or C++.  The few Lisp jobs
> available are therefore very attractive.
> 
> I think Ruby is similar to Lisp in this respect.  By choosing Ruby
> instead of PHP or Perl, your boss is likely to make the company an
> attractive workplace for the most skillful programmers.  Instead of
> getting a big number of mostly incompetent candidates to new
> positions, you are likely to get a smaller number of very good ones.
> 
Hmmm, never thought of that. However, from the posts I see on this
list, I tend to think it might be true.

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Jim Freeze
If only I had something clever to say for my comment...
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