Ahh the joys of installing Visual Studio - enough time to install IntelliJ, run it up, and catch up on news."Twitter decided they would be cute and trendy. They wrote their code in Ruby: the official state language of the hipster-developer nation. Doug Cutting, on the other hand, decided he would get xxxx done, and wrote Hadoop in Java. Starling was hidden away in some corner and forgotten (it's hosted at RubyForge...). Hadoop lives prominently at the Apache Software Foundation. Starling is a re-hash of an existing Java Enterprise API called JMS that has several open source implementations. Hadoop is an implementation of Google's MapReduce, a system that publicly only existed on paper. Hadoop has the added benefit of actually working."
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Real Developers don't use Ruby
Hadoop: When grownups do open source. It's quite an amusing read - especially the part about the word count example on 9,000 blogs, the digg at Twitter, Starfish being practically useless (using MySQL and no Reduce phase) and the bit about understanding something being harder than writing a Ruby version of it.
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I call No True Scotsman!
A revision might be "Intelligent Developers don't use Ruby (with the exception of malicious intent)" which has a somewhat attractive truthiness to it.
When are we having lunch next Andrew?
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