Re: [Rails] Re: Ruby adoption statistics

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:28, Michael Reiland
<michael.s.reiland@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the idea that rails needs extra smart programmers is a bit silly.
>  It's a bit like a blog author who tells his audience they're in the top
> echelon simply by reading his or her blog.

A while back, some programming blog (Coding Horror, maybe?) said that
its audience was the cream of the programming crop... because they
read *ANY* blogs, not necessarily that one. There are an awful lot of
programmers out there who only treat it as a day-job, not bothering to
keep their skills modern and sharp by reading blogs, listening to
podcasts, participating in email lists (hey, looky what I'm doin'!),
let alone writing their own blogs... and programming in their spare
time is Right Out. And not only are there an awful lot of programmers
like that, a lot of them are probably awful programmers! ;-)

-Dave (blog reader, podcast listener, email participator, AND blog
writer, times two!)

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