Eh, usually I like Zed's stuff; but this one sounds like every conversation I've had with every C developer ever. It's not that learning C is a big deal, it's

Eh, usually I like Zed's stuff; but this one sounds like every conversation I've had with every C developer ever. It's not that learning C is a big deal, it's that it contains a lot of unnecessary work and there are nicer (read: more convenient) languages to work in. Good Ruby developers will probably make good C developers, and bad ones will be obviously bad. I guess Zed's not over having his feelings hurt by the Ruby community yet. I give this one a 5/10 (although, I should give a bonus point for successfully getting "fuck" on the front page again, I guess).