"If you tried [RoR], and cannot learn it, then programming just might not be for you"
I've seen too many similar statements from proponents of various frameworks/tools/languages/paradigms: "If you don't get X, you are stupid and should be flipping burgers."
After more than a decade of debating so called Golden Hammers and probing their justifications, I've concluded that people just vastly think differently and there are many ways to shave a cat (skinning them is too mean).
Some techniques just resonate with certain brains better. There is no reason to make it personal or mean.
I've met other Table Oriented Programming thinkers ("Tablizers"), and they love it also, but selling TOP to others has fallen flat.
They seem to prefer coding attributes (or what should be attributes) into what TO ME is verbose and hard-to-read code. But they LIKE reading that verbose code and even seem fast at it. Boggle. It's like Fred Flintstone preferring to stick with his feet-powered-car instead of getting a Honda. If Fred can get around well and quickly in his Footillac Deluxe, I guess I shouldn't care, as long as he doesn't force his car choice on me.
Hopefully each can find or make a shop where the other developers like and use your favorite tools also, and everybody is happy and productive with tools that fit their mind like a glove.
Really? (Score:0)
"I am impressed by all the sour bitching about RoR in /. If you tried, and cannot learn it, then programming just might not be for you."
RoR is a burning trash fire. If you're using exclusively RoR you're out of you're mind.
Proponents [Re:Really?] (Score:2)
I've seen too many similar statements from proponents of various frameworks/tools/languages/paradigms: "If you don't get X, you are stupid and should be flipping burgers."
After more than a decade of debating so called Golden Hammers and probing their justifications, I've concluded that people just vastly think differently and there are many ways to shave a cat (skinning them is too mean).
Some techniques just resonate with certain brains better. There is no reason to make it personal or mean.
I've met other Table Oriented Programming thinkers ("Tablizers"), and they love it also, but selling TOP to others has fallen flat.
They seem to prefer coding attributes (or what should be attributes) into what TO ME is verbose and hard-to-read code. But they LIKE reading that verbose code and even seem fast at it. Boggle. It's like Fred Flintstone preferring to stick with his feet-powered-car instead of getting a Honda. If Fred can get around well and quickly in his Footillac Deluxe, I guess I shouldn't care, as long as he doesn't force his car choice on me.
Hopefully each can find or make a shop where the other developers like and use your favorite tools also, and everybody is happy and productive with tools that fit their mind like a glove.
Sunshine, Unicorns, Rainbows, and YourFavStack
Peace! -Tablizer