From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-05-07T02:09:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?

In article <20040506112301.GA20201@lb.tenfour>,
Dick Davies  <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> wrote:
>* Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> [0554 02:54]:
>> Last week I went for a job interview for a Perl/C/C++ job.  One of the 
>> interviewers saw that I had done a lot of Perl (including OOPerl) in the 
>> past, so he started asking me a lot of Perl questions.
>
>Funnily enough, I had an interview where I got asked some simple Perl
>questions, which were easy enough to answer.
>
>Then I got a real beauty: 'So, what would you say is wrong with Perl?'
>
>20 minutes of rant later, the interviewer was asking about where he
>could get Ruby.
>
>I start next week.

Are they looking for more people who know Ruby?  Anyplace that is that 
open to change sounds like a good place to work.  Sign me up!

Phil