On: Why teach with Ruby?

[horofox]

Ruby is awesome.

Please don't compare it with java, that makes me so sad.

Java is so bad, deal with it. The good thing about java is the JVM to use with another language like scala, clojure and so on.

Being a programmer is actually funny, you can stay all your life using 10 frameworks to do something for web in java with a lot of lines of code and bugs and think you are so good(like I did), but you're actually so bad.

I'm still trying to learn lisp and start doing some clojure too, can't wait!

[steveklabnik → horofox]

> Please don't compare it with java, that makes me so sad.

I only do because Java has been the go-to year one language for colleges for the past few years. I wouldn't even mention it otherwise.

> I'm still trying to learn lisp and start doing some clojure too, can't wait!

Enjoy! I don't have a ton of Clojure experience, but from what I've seen, it's pretty awesome.