Steve Jobs Says, "F**k you Ruby Fanbois!' | oppugn.us
Over the last 5-10 years though C has fallen out of favor with the young hipster coders. You know the guys I'm talking about. The ones that have those hot pictures of their slightly pimply faces all done up in their best super model "Blue Steel" looks off to the right of their eloquent prose about how awesome Ruby's latest incremental feature is the coming of Jesus. Or, the guys who just write endlessly about Cucumber, or whatever the testing framework of the week is.
These are also the guys who love Apple. Mostly because DHH loves Apple. Never mind that getting up and running with Ruby on Rails on a Mac takes a metric fuck ton of ass raping while on Linux it's next to trivial (well, at least if you aren't on Debian). Nope, real coders use Apple because the typography is sooooo awesome. "Look at the serifs on my Ruby do block!"
I have even heard one ruby coder say these words:
"Typography is the most important part of information science."
What?! Uh, huh? Information science has nothing to do with typography. Why would anyone ever think that? Information science is about books and human knowledge and how it's stored and searched for and the fucking font doesn't matter. That's like saying 1+1=2 but 1+1=3 because it's "emphasized font".
Well today, I am in love with Steve Jobs. He apparently agrees with me that these guys shouldn't be coding.
