Mark-Jason Dominus’ Why I Hate Advocacy draws attention to common fallacies made when arguing for any particular tool or method. He makes many excellent points, but my favorite part was this hilarious quote:
“Perl’s motto is “There’s More Than One Way To Do It”, and sometimes that means that one of the ways is to use PHP.”
From The Philosophy of Ruby:
“Instead of emphasizing the what, I want to emphasize the how part: how we feel while programming. That’s Ruby’s main difference from other language designs. I emphasize the feeling, in particular, how I feel using Ruby. I didn’t work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it’s not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.
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For me the purpose of life is partly to have joy. Programmers often feel joy when they can concentrate on the creative side of programming, So Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.”