A Developer Thanked Me Today
I had a meeting today for work. A developer present at the meeting thanked me out of the blue. Particularly he thanked me for encouraging him to try Ruby and RoR. He had developed systems in PHP, Java and C++ before and Ruby completely turned his view of programming on its head.
I always thought that language in programming was irrelevant until I tried Ruby. It opens capabilities of expression that I never thought possible.
I’m always happy to proselytize to a developer about the virtues of being able to express yourself in short, readable and maintainable high level language.
In every case he has an epiphany and finds programming fun again.
I even want to open books about Ruby to learn more about it on my lunch hours.