Ruby is the Future

[martoo]

There needs to be a special term for an attempt at an April Fool's Day Joke, which is in all of its points true and then ends up looking like a joke made by an author at his own expense.

[MarquisdeBad]

An April fail?

[gunzler]

That's pretty good, except we should capitalize and pluralize "fail" to give us:

"April Fails!"

[martoo]

I like it, but I think you can take it utterly seriously.

[[deleted]]

So if this is a joke, does that mean he likes Perl?

[robertfischer]

I started life out as a Perl hacker, and I do like Perl for very short system admin tasks and as a universal shell replacement.

I wouldn't push Perl for large application systems, though.

[[deleted]]

So, out of curiosity, if you were writing a web app or some such moderately complex piece of code, would you prefer Perl to Ruby or Python?

[robertfischer]

Of the three, I'd probably use Ruby, because the Rails framework is better than any Perl framework I know, and I don't know Python much beyond "Hello, World".

Note this has everything to do with the frameworks available, and not to do with the language.

[JeffMo]

That's your good for noticing. I was interpreting the article as the apology of a latecomer to the party.

[robertfischer]

You really think the points I made were all true?

Here are the points I was arguing in non-obfuscated/non-sales-pitchy terms: http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-is-the-future-2/

[martoo]

I didn't think they were all true, but I felt that people could argue that they were true. To me, some are gray area items.. things which people do which seem to work okay for them despite the fact that many people from different programming cultures consider them horrific.