cprogrammer1101

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   by cprogrammer1101 11y ago

   You know, you're right; there's no such thing as an ephemeral language or platform. Why, look at all new projects started every day in QBasic, Tcl, or Turbo Pascal. I'm sure people will be building stuff with Ruby forty years
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   by cprogrammer1101 11y ago

   Ruby doesn't teach you anything if you already know Lisp + CLOS or Smalltalk.
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   by cprogrammer1101 11y ago

   Absolutely. I sat out the Ruby/Rails hype cycle and am none the worse for it. Life is too short to waste time learning ephemeral tech like Ruby, Node.js, or MongoDB. When considering whether to learn a new language or platform, I ask m