> I will tell people that I like something, but I never tell them > that they must use it. I think it's just a "dude, you've got to check this out" sorta

> I will tell people that I like something, but I never tell them > that they must use it. I think it's just a "dude, you've got to check this out" sorta thing. Not really a command but that special itch to just share your opinion with someone. I gravitate towards the tools/technologies/paradigms that compel this sort of enthusiasm every time. * Martin Odersky's (and the general community's) enthusiasm led me to pursue Scala and convinced me to take a serious stab at functional programming. * Rich Hickey (etc.) to Clojure. * Sandi Metz (etc.) to object-oriented design. * DHH (etc.) to Ruby and Rails. Vim, Coffeescript, Alfred, Postgres, tmux, Crystal Reports, Dropbox, most my entire toolchain, where I went out to eat last night -- all cajoled by the infectious enthusiasm of others inspirited by those things.