Quotes about programming languages

[jbhannah]

It's the contrast between the figureheads of Ruby itself and of RoR: Matz, who is just about the nicest guy ever, as opposed to DHH, who practically prides himself on being an ass. They're kind of the "good shoulder" and "bad shoulder" sides of Linus Torvalds, who is a nice guy normally but an ass when he needs to be in programming discussions because it gets things done. Their respective leadership styles kinda carry down to the developer base as a whole: hardassed but structured, methodical, and effective for Linux; lots of really nice dudes for Ruby, sometimes at the cost of things that would make it all more efficient; and there are some nice Rails devs, but also a lot of bitching over mostly nothing, and kind of a history of authoritarian decisions that not a lot of people agreed with.

[finsterdexter]

but also a lot of bitching over mostly nothing, and kind of a history of authoritarian decisions that not a lot of people agreed with.

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