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To: FJB who wrote (748560)	10/22/2013 3:15:56 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574102

That is a bit funny. I don't know anything about Ruby as a language, but at this time in my life I have little need for learning another. I looked at the language briefly, and frankly, I don't know what it has to offer that other, better supported languages can't do as well or better. Short of some strange turn of events I suspect I'll use mostly c++, c# and objective c for anything I do the rest of my working life. I used to be fascinated by languages but at this point there just seems to be little need for new ones. Not long ago I read "Masterminds of Programming" which was a collection of interviews with the developers of various languages. I was struck by the attitudes of many of them, and particularly how the developers of Objective C rationalized the weakness of the language -- at one point trying to make the case that the lack of multiple inheritance is a "feature" that makes it better than c++. It has just become ridiculous at this point. If you want the ability to develop a really high performance site that is maintainable forever, use asp or Java or whatever. But if the code is crappy, the site will be crappy, and that is the bottom line. The odds of this site being fixed within the required time frame are looking to be extremely low at this point, and the administration is going to have to move to Plan B pretty quickly. Which is going to be delaying the "mandate" part of the individual mandate. I really wonder about the decision to hire Verizon to fix it. Maybe. But I'm just not sure they're going to find the correct skill sets in there.