lame.
Not because I do Java (for a living), but because of the energy wasted in ranking programmers by language rather than by skill.
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Er, that's kind of the point: It's a joke poking fun at programmers who consider themselves superior to other programmers based on language (as opposed to some other, hopefully better criteria--like sense of humor
Actually, I also use Ruby at work - at the moment I'm writing a C-code parser/analyser, which generates assembly code glue to pass between a virtual machine and a real CPU. All of the high-end logic is done in Ruby, even if the low-end parsing is done in C... Fun, but I note that that app also has exactly 0 to do with the web...
Oh, I should mention that, with the exception of app programming on the Mac, the Ruby comment was pretty much spot on
)Well, like Todd said, those who suffer the most from delusions of grandeur are the Rails subset of Ruby programmers.
Be thankful you're using Ruby at work and not something like Yacc (I have to use Yacc
I want to to learn Haskell next, whose only side effect will be to engender a feeling of dominance over Lisp programmers *cough cough*
Anyway, you forgot the most important part of the hierachy - Me!
Demallien -> Considers herself superior to....
