I think I should learn Ruby.

[swestrup]

I just read this blog rant about which programming languages to learn. The interesting thing is that I 99.44% agree with the rant, but I don't know Ruby. So maybe its time I took a look at it.

Comments

[wlach.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing that out. Some other interesting stuff on that guy's site too, it seems. Particularly enjoyed his elucidations on emacs:

http://www.cabochon.com/%7Estevey/blog-rants/effective-emacs.html

[swestrup]

Its interesting, although I don't totally agree. I do use Emacs by choice, but there are Many, many (many!) things I would fix on it if I could. In a previous incarnation of Emacs (my code won't run on the current version -- one of my rants) I had it set up so that it grew menus and scroll bars whenever the mouse was moved, or hovered over a mouse control. Otherwise it was all screen. It was wonderful.

I once used a now-defunct editor named Aurora (which is not open source, although the author has been pressured many times to release it so the open-source community could use it), which had a really kick-ass object-oriented macro language for extensions.

It was also about 1/10th the size of an Emacs install with the same level of capabilities. If I ever write my own editor (something which apparantly about 90% of programmers plan to do some day...) it will borrow ideas from Aurora.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

So this is the ruby that dmckilli has in his interests list! I wondered what it was because in all the years I've known him, I'd never seen him show any affinity for the stone.