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Kieran Huggins wrote:Ruby is hawt... and has more of a rockstar-esque job market
Well that just suits me perfectly. :D
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Ruby has mix-ins, which are just like inheritance without the capital gains tax.

Oh, and Ruby itself is hawt - Rails is hawt-ness!
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Ruby is a great language (pointedly not mentioning Rails which seems to overshadow the language itself). Like a few other languages it's coolest libraries are also woefully under commented/documented at times. If you do ever learn Ruby you need to look up two things: RSpec and Autotest.
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Ruby vs. its enemies

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We are currently doing a study of the popularity of Ruby vs. PHP, Perl, and Python. Please see http://www.odinjobs.com/blogs/careers for the results.
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While it is tempting to look at it from a salary perspective, sometimes we pick up on things for the enjoyment value of it. While certain programming languages might be valuable in terms of income potential, the possibility does exist that learning a new language could just be something someone wants to do.
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After spending 3 weeks in Toronto, maybe Ole could chime in here on what language to learn next? Ole?
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Now that Google's Android is based on Java, there would be more Java requirements.
People who are into J2ME have a good head start on Android.
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Kieran Huggins wrote:After spending 3 weeks in Toronto, maybe Ole could chime in here on what language to learn next? Ole?
What, Canadian, eh?
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Everah, you make that sound like some sort of accusation :lol:
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Everah wrote:
Kieran Huggins wrote:After spending 3 weeks in Toronto, maybe Ole could chime in here on what language to learn next? Ole?
What, Canadian, eh?
:rofl:

It's remarkably similar to other popular languages, but we use the term ", eh." as a statement delimiter and some of the syntax is a little different.

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// variable assignment (using keywords):
$i is $thirsty, eh.

// record linking
$i has_many $beers, eh.

// iteration
forallmy $beers as $beer
   $i->drink $beer, eh.
burp

// built in debugging view:
aboot $me, eh.
I'd better stop now, before I bludgeon this clown any further.

BTW - I meant Ruby (& merb)
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Crap damn that was funny. I have tears in my eyes.

aboot $me, eh. Awesome.
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I think the worst part about being Canadian is when your speaking to someone from another country and you let the "eh" slip even though your trying not to. Undoubtedly they will point out that you said "eh" and laugh. Silly Canadians. :)
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Same could be said of the infamous "like" terminator :)
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Everah wrote:Crap damn that was funny. I have tears in my eyes.
I had to stop reading for fear of leaving my bloody split sides all over the floor.
Of course you can't omit the classic "m'kay". I had a teacher at high school who used to use it. No really I did, I'm not making this up. Only for a couple of lessons. I had my head on the desk and turned bright red whilst trying to suppress the hilarity of it all. She would leave little pauses just before she said it as well, so you would be waiting a couple of seconds beforehand, the suspense just made it so much better.
After spending 3 weeks in Toronto, maybe Ole could chime in here on what language to learn next? Ole?
Like I haven't already once in this thread. Also I was already into Ruby before I met up with you; just not rails.
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Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:Same could be said of the infamous "like" terminator :)
I'm infamous like The Terminator!!! @Everah & NSG: Ah'll be bach for FOAR MOAR YEERZ!

To set the record straight: Ole showed up with a book about precious gems and two stuffed foxes. When telling him about Rails I had to drag him down to the local Subway station to end the confusion once and for all.

Seriously though, all I meant was the sexy Ruby parties. Wait, were there any sexy Ruby parties while you were here?
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