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For the creators of the three top web languages of PHP, Ruby, and Python: - 2/3 currently work for YC companies. - 3/3 have at one point worked for a YC compa

• zmitri 14y ago
  Guido --> Dropbox Matz --> Heroku Rasmus --> WePay
  • jzawodn 14y ago
    Actually: Rasmus --> Etsy
    • mhartl 14y ago
      I think the implication is that Rasmus used to work for WePay, a YC company (i.e., that's what makes it 3/3). Etsy, Rasmus's current employer, didn't go through YC.
• petercooper 14y ago
  I'm a Rubyist but I find "the three top web languages of PHP, Ruby, and Python" odd. I'd suspect C# and Java (and possibly classic ASP?) are still more heavily used in webapps overall than Python or Ruby. A reasonable counterargument could be that C# and Java aren't primarily used for webapps, but then neither is Python(?)
  • kloncks 14y ago
    Also a Rubyist here. Not trying to start a war. Take "the three top web languages of [blank]" as "the three [descriptive adjective] of [list]" No one can argue that PHP, Ruby & Python are some top of the top languages on the web. Didn't mean for "the" to seem as limiting as you took it.
    • petercooper 14y ago
      Isn't English fun! :-) My interpretation wasn't entirely unfair. The "for" and double "of" result in an ambiguous meaning. "top" is most commonly a superlative, similar to "best" or "most popular", as in "the three best actors". But you used it in a different sense, as in "three top actors" (though this doesn't usually work with "the" before it.) I do see where you're coming from though and what you intended so this is mostly linguistic wankery for a good Friday night in ;-)
      • kloncks 14y ago
        I can appreciate that. Thanks for keeping me on my toes there ;)