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"I mean, is every Ruby programmer a genius?" Yes, they are geniuses, because of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
by igorgue 15y ago
"I mean, is every Ruby programmer a genius?"
Yes, they are geniuses, because of this: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html
- chrisaycock 15y agoThat was written in 2004, when Python was nowhere near as popular as it is now. Ruby is also really popular today too, and thus fits in the category that PG was lumping Java in. If you want a comparatively esoteric language today, try ML or Haskell.
- Zak 15y ago"Genius" may be overstating things a bit especially now that Rails has gotten pretty popular. You do find some people in the Rails world who are a lot like PHP programmers[0] these days, and you do need to take care to weed those out. That said, you'll probably have to do a lot less weeding out to find somebody to work on a Ruby project than a .NET, Java or PHP project. [0] In this context, a "PHP programmer" is not simply a programmer who uses PHP, but a programmer who uses only PHP and is almost certainly clueless about CS fundamentals.