From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-05-08T09:48:29+09:00
Subject: Ruby Roast (Re: [OT]Is Ruby Top 1 of Programming Languages that are Loved?)

Sean Russell wrote:
> James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@neurogami.com> wrote in message news:<409A3F01.6070302@neurogami.com>...
> 
>>About a month ago I interviewed a number of candidates for a Java 
>>developer position.  
> 
> 
> James... dude... why do you never call me when these things come up? 
> A month ago I was sitting here, on the couch watching endless "Buffy"
> DVDs from NetFlix, eating bon-bons and busily being unemployed.
> 
> <sob> Don't you love me anymore?!?

Hey, if I had known you'd be interested in a job in Phoenix, I'd have 
put the word in and given you a yell.  It was Java work, but I was 
slipping in Ruby to test Web pages.

BTW, it was 100 degrees F. here yesterday.

> ...
>>And this is not a jab at Java; I would think that anybody deeply 
>>familiar with a language would have a few things things they disliked 
>>about it, even if, on the whole, they loved the language.
> 
> 
> Good point.  So, I hereby proclaim this the first annual J.B. Ruby
> Roast.  

J.B. Roast, huh?

> Come on, cough up.  What don't you like about Ruby?

I think my biggest gripes are slowly becoming history.  Poor or 
non-existent documentation made it hard to use certain features, and 
hard for others to join the fun.  But that's improving daily.

Lack of native threads and lack of Unicode support are downers.

James