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Javascript is a good girl to marry My crush is Ruby and probably will always be. She is beautiful but sometimes her mind is slow and I always liked fast girls.

Javascript is a good girl to marry My crush is Ruby and probably will always be. She is beautiful but sometimes her mind is slow and I always liked fast girls. She is great girl, don't get me wrong, but not to marry. I'm afraid one day she will run away. In my street there are also 2 sisters, Lisp and Clojure. A cousin of them (Autolisp) was my first real girlfriend but we grew apart. Lisp, the older sister, was the most beautiful woman I ever met, it's a pity she is too old for me. Her younger and gothic sister (Clojure) is still a teen and unpredictable. Anyway their family is not very apreciated in my town, people say that they are weird and anti-social. I like them but what would my parents say about a relationship like this? Then there's Javascript. I don't have a passion for her, neither she is the most beautiful and perfect girl I know. Anyway she is good enough for me, I'm just a hobbyist, not a ninja. She is the kind of girl that will be always there for me. Slowly I will love her also, I'm sure of it. If I get really bored I'll take her unstable but so damn pretty co-worker as a mistress (Coffeescript) but I will never divorce Javascript, she's a woman for life. Im 34. I played around already, I don't want to look for more women. I'm old enough to marry and put on my leash. My reasons to "marry" Javascript: - JS is present everywhere and will be for a long time. Coming from a struggling field, I'm tired of begging for work; - I'm an hobbyist, JS still have a lot of amateurs, I'm still in time to jump on board. It's the wild West now; - Autocad (my field) just got a JS API.. ; - Meteor. IMO it has a bright future: it's cool (it's a kids project), user friendly (women involved in the development) and open to newbies (including hobbyists from different fields like me) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cOLFP-ZyQ&list=UU3fBiJrFFMhKlsWM46AsAYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cOLFP-ZyQ&list=UU3fBiJrFFM... (This short video of a Tattoo designer running a business on Meteor was an epiphany for me). Note: This is just an humoristic comment, don't take it too seriously..

dubcanada 12y ago
I don't want to start any sort of a war. But why does women involved in development make it user friendly?
- galfarragem 12y ago
  I say this with a positive meaning: Women are more pragmatist (even if men claim the opposite) and will make any product easier to use (not necessarily more simple).
  - rubiquity 12y ago
    You're so far down a hole you don't even realize it.
aiiane 12y ago
Am I the only one who is seriously tired of programming languages being compared to women? I know you're probably well intentioned, but that and a number of other things in your post are pretty heavy on the stereotype side of things ("women = user friendly" and "put on a leash" are two other examples) and it's the kind of stuff that adds little bits of stress to my work day, which add up over time since there are plenty of guys who do stuff like that without really thinking or actively meaning harm. You have some good points/language comparisons - could you phrase them in a way that doesn't create unnecessary implications?
- galfarragem 12y ago
  "Note: This is just an humoristic comment, don't take it too seriously.."
  - philh 12y ago
    I don't have to take something seriously to find it tiresome.
  - aiiane 12y ago
    I don't think you meant it in a mean way or serious way. The problem is that you are far from the first person to use these tired tropes, and it only takes so many "not too serious" comments before the pattern itself becomes the problem, not the individual comments. Think of it like a speed bump - a single speed bump on your street isn't that big a thing, and isn't really a problem on its own. But if there was a speed bump every 5 feet along your street, that would get tiring fast - even though the basic concept of a speed bump isn't itself the problem, it's just the repetition that's the issue.
    - galfarragem 12y ago
      Despite the massive downvoting I will not delete the comment. I have nothing to be shame of. I am not offending anyone. I am expressing an opinion (in a specific style) that I consider to add value and possibly help someone out there. It would certainly have helped me sometime ago when "adjusting" my career path and choosing a computer language to learn. Don't take life so seriously that the world offends you.

dubcanada 12y ago

I don't want to start any sort of a war. But why does women involved in development make it user friendly?

galfarragem 12y ago
I say this with a positive meaning: Women are more pragmatist (even if men claim the opposite) and will make any product easier to use (not necessarily more simple).
- rubiquity 12y ago
  You're so far down a hole you don't even realize it.

aiiane 12y ago

Am I the only one who is seriously tired of programming languages being compared to women? I know you're probably well intentioned, but that and a number of other things in your post are pretty heavy on the stereotype side of things ("women = user friendly" and "put on a leash" are two other examples) and it's the kind of stuff that adds little bits of stress to my work day, which add up over time since there are plenty of guys who do stuff like that without really thinking or actively meaning harm. You have some good points/language comparisons - could you phrase them in a way that doesn't create unnecessary implications?

galfarragem 12y ago
"Note: This is just an humoristic comment, don't take it too seriously.."
- philh 12y ago
  I don't have to take something seriously to find it tiresome.
- aiiane 12y ago
  I don't think you meant it in a mean way or serious way. The problem is that you are far from the first person to use these tired tropes, and it only takes so many "not too serious" comments before the pattern itself becomes the problem, not the individual comments. Think of it like a speed bump - a single speed bump on your street isn't that big a thing, and isn't really a problem on its own. But if there was a speed bump every 5 feet along your street, that would get tiring fast - even though the basic concept of a speed bump isn't itself the problem, it's just the repetition that's the issue.
  - galfarragem 12y ago
    Despite the massive downvoting I will not delete the comment. I have nothing to be shame of. I am not offending anyone. I am expressing an opinion (in a specific style) that I consider to add value and possibly help someone out there. It would certainly have helped me sometime ago when "adjusting" my career path and choosing a computer language to learn. Don't take life so seriously that the world offends you.