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The Case for Dynamic Languages, by Sam Ruby

The Case for Dynamic Languages, slides from Sam Ruby's keynote at FOSSSL, via Sam Ruby.

Update: Also see 10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know About Ruby, which Sam links to. It's excellent.

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68.52.202.37 wrote:

I really like the quote that he used from Alan Perlis:

"A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing."

In fairness, Java was thought provoking in its day...back in the late 1990s.

∴ 68.52.202.37 | 10-Sep-2005 8:07pm est | #8272

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

In fairness, Java was thought provoking in its day...

How so?

Keith | 11-Sep-2005 12:27am est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #8274

70.151.39.34 wrote:

"Is this actually slower than COBOL?"

"Where did all my computer's memory go?"

"Are these the ugliest UI widgets ever made?"

∴ 70.151.39.34 | 12-Sep-2005 5:23pm est | #8280

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