Language Wars... 2007 edition

Posted by admin, Fri Oct 19 06:08:50 UTC 2007



David Rupp’s Blog: The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You’ll Ever Need To Read (Hopefully)

The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You’ll Ever Need To Read (Hopefully)


I do have a problem with this post, though. The Rails framework is being misrepresented as the Ruby language… ;-)

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  1. David Rupp 10.28.07 / 15PM
    Hey, thanks for the mention! Glad you enjoyed the insanity (assuming you did). I took another look at the post, and the only Ruby (character) quote I could see being attributed to Rails was the one about writing the full working clone of Google. The rest I thought was pretty generic. It is true, unfortunately, that the arrogant, immature attitude that informed my characterization of "Ruby" is a vocal minority of Ruby programmers who are probably also predominately Rails programmers. But you can see other examples in the Ruby-at-large community if you follow it at the same level that I do. Again, I think it's unfortunate, and I don't want to ultimately come across as painting with too wide a brush; but that's the name of the game in parody/satire. ;-)
  2. lori 10.28.07 / 15PM
    Oh, I enjoyed it all right. But I will say that the Ruby developers never appeared arrogant or immature before Rails became popular.
  3. David Rupp 10.28.07 / 16PM
    Heh. That may be a "tree falling in the forest" thing -- did they not appear arrogant because they weren't? Or because the public at large (okay, the geek public at large) wasn't paying enough attention to them? That brings up another possibility: the limelight has been known to bring out the unsavory in people. I can totally picture a bunch of meek PHP/Java geeks feeling disenfranchised within the existing communities. Suddenly this Rails thing comes along, they jump on to it, and they suddenly get a lot of attention and start feeling their oats. Probably happen again with the Next Big Language/Framework, whatever it is. I feel bad for the legion of decent Ruby programmers (and I do think the bulk of the pre-Rails ones were of that ilk) who are being tarred by this unfortunate association with the loudmouths. But, like most things, I'm sure it will work itself out. And in the meantime I get plenty of ammo for my fun-making. It's late -- and this might just be the wine talking -- but now I might need to write a parody version of "I Was Ruby When Ruby Wasn't Cool".
  4. lori 10.31.07 / 05AM
    I'll look forward to that!

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