Matthew Huntbach takes a long hard look at the coolest language on the planet and is distinctly under impressed by what he sees…
Friday 16 March 2007
by Matthew Huntbach
Tim Sweeney’s talk The Next Mainstream Programming Language (PowerPoint PPT) is in many ways an antidote to the recent Ruby hype. Tim calls for the use of stronger types to ensure program reliability. He praises the academically-developed Haskell functional programming language. He raises concurrency as a feature which must be tackled in the next big programming language, using a better model than the shared state with threads and mutual exclusion devices used by Java - and by Ruby - (...)
After reading this I now know another reason why the number of cs grads drop consecutively every year... What’s wrong with trying to make a programming language look cool and fun as opposed to using the conventional dry textbook approach? This is what’s wrong with your generation of software engineers and why in general the interest in computer science has dropped.
If you don’t like the way people like Why present Ruby, then stop reading it and stick with traditional printed reference manuals; there are many good ones. Or even better, stop bitching and write your own articles on Ruby and and start posting them to prominent sites.
