Ruby will be die :(

Ruby
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Stu wrote in post #1127403:

after all the web developers get bored and start playing with shiny new
toys we can begin to reimpliment the features which they removed because
it would be to /hard/ to implement in the JVM and therefor we all have to
suffer.

What do you mean here?

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@felix

Working through sicp myself. I believe it’s still taught but optional.
Brown does something clever. They make their student use scheme to
implement core python. That probably defeats the whole “great I can
implement a language but I’m now going to have to use a common mindshare
toolset when I get into the real world” –

@max

My first ruby project was similar. It generated music for a student to
build coordination and muscle memory from a calculation I had on both
generating the rhythms and reducing the exercises to build canonically
from
each other. Think “the little schemer” for musicians =)

@OP
Ruby will be here forever. I still program in many languages older than
myself. As long as there is a UNIX there will be a place for Ruby. Also
after all the web developers get bored and start playing with shiny new
toys we can begin to reimpliment the features which they removed because
it
would be to /hard/ to implement in the JVM and therefor we all have to
suffer. Which will it be; maybe go? clojure or erlang!

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“the web developers get bored and start playing with shiny new toys we
can begin to reimpliment the features which they removed”

Not everyone is a “web developer”.

I started with Ruby before Rails.

Whether rails exists or not makes no difference to me.

I needed a better language than perl or php and ruby fits here.

Ruby is perl done right.

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I´ve just released MDArray 0.5.5. It has similar features as NumPy and
NArray, but for JRuby. Might interest people on this thread.

Cheers,

Rodrigo