O’Reilly has an interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails.
If you are happy to work along the golden path that I’ve embedded in Rails, you gain an immense reward in terms of productivity that allows you to do more, sooner, and better at the application level.
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It took one day to say, “I really like this.” It took one week to say, “I’m never going back to PHP again.” And it took one month before my proficiency with Ruby made me run circles around my former programming capabilities in PHP. It was just such an incredibly powerful fit. Ruby fit my brain perfectly. I was having so much more fun and getting so much more done.
Per usual, I get my new language fix from hearing it from Dave, and it looks like I’ll be on my way to getting this one under the belt. I’m not sure how much of a language junkie I am, as I find it aggrivating to keep the syntax clear between languages. You know, things like wondering why
if Foo :
doesn’t want to work in C#