Keith's Weblog: Comments on "The Case for Dynamic Languages, by Sam Ruby"

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Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:07:08 +0000

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.

Sun, 11 Sep 2005 05:27:57 +0000

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

How so?

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 22:23:38 +0000

"Is this actually slower than COBOL?"

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

"Are these the ugliest UI widgets ever made?"