[Technomage]

On 2/20/10 8:13 PM, Craig White wrote:
> and then of course there is the motivation to learn a language for
> gainful employment which in some circles would be none of the above.
>
> I think Kevin was looking at it from his particular employment angle.
>
> Personally, I am particularly amused by Joseph's placing both Ruby and
> PHP both in the same 'rapid web development' category because my
> experience has been that it takes me 1/4 to 1/5 the time to accomplish
> 'rapid web development' with RoR than it does with PHP.
>
> The only thing worse than trying to decipher 'other peoples' PHP code is
> trying to decipher 'other peoples' perl code.
>
> Craig
>
>
>    
yeah. try deciphering other peoples badly written C++ to get a project 
to compile (including but not
limited to: missing lib statements, misspellings, invisible characters, 
etc). nothing is more maddening
than an improperly placed operand or missing ";".