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Well Ruby came out of Japan. So in 1995 some of Japan's coders were programming like it was 2005.
by rapind 13y ago
Well Ruby came out of Japan. So in 1995 some of Japan's coders were programming like it was 2005.
- dead_phish 13y agoWell, one of Japan's coders. Matz was kind of revolutionary.
- msutherl 13y agoRuby isn't exactly revolutionary. See: Smalltalk. RoR, however, was.
- Pitarou 13y agoThis is an interesting case. A new programming language is a frail thing, and can only grow and prosper if it finds an unoccupied niche. Japan was the perfect environment for Ruby to develop until it was ready to take on the world. It's as if mammals evolved on an island without any dinosaurs, and then swam over to the mainland.
- ekianjo 13y agoMouahaha you killed your argument with this example. Matz is not really a typical Japanese. He is a mormont, he's fluent in English, and lived extensively overseas. There's almost no Japanese like him. So let's forget about this case.