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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo

One word: ARC.

I'm not surprised Rails hipsters don't see anything wrong with comparing themselves to Mac users. Picking on Java is kind of like taking candy from a retarded baby in a broken wheelchair, though.

>>3
By definition, Rails kids always roll with Textmate setups. Anything else and you're a casual.

Ruby -- nice functional language, plenty of alternatives to the reference implementation.  Getting some love from the smalltalk crowd over the past 2-3 years, which is good.

Rails -- I'll use it for any of my personal projects because it's so damn easy, but damn if I will trust any mission-critical enterprise architectures to it.  The single-threaded nature of it alone is enough to scare off the casual Java EE programmer.  Running a "pack of mongrels" seems to result in "GATEWAY UNREACHABLE" more often than a horizontally scalable infrastructure with give-nines reliability in a full-service economy.

I guess that was JRuby in the jar at the end?
Anyway, your all gay.

>>6
My all gay?!

>>7
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/235/testpf.png

>>4
Textmate isn't that horrible of an editor IMO. If you have your macros set up it can do some of pattern matching that you can find in emacs, and it does have built in terminal support. Though yeah... I really don't get the appeal of rails. I'm pretty sure it's because a bunch of kids went into college for graphic design, figured out they sucked at it, wanted to do something in "web development", found out rails is installed by default, and then took a couple BUILD A BLOG IN 30 MINUTES! tutorials... and BAM! you've got an asshole "web developer".

Then again I'm a haskell hack that thinks that this is the fucking future, but scream at a program when I want to have some sort of mutable state or message passing. So who am I to judge.

>>9
Textmate is the best editor ever. *goes home to have sex with my Textmate*

http://boards.4chan.org/sci/res/902177

>>1
Fuck that's terrible. I couldn't make it past 5 seconds.

>>11
Further proof that scientists will not replace anusrammers.

>>13
I think it's just proof that the kids in that thread don't have any real math.

>>14
MATHEMATIZE MY ANUS

>>11
I've been using Visual Basic for a programming class for about three months now.

I just completed a Mahjong program using objects, loops, if/thens, and subs. Also, i've become pretty agile with the VB designer (added sounds and image files to my program).

Exactly how far have i come in terms of programming? I mean, am I just at the tip of the iceberg, or have i actually come a long ways?

Also, should I even consider trying Java or another language at this time?

I know, i'm a programming idiot.




Well elitist douschebags that don't get anything done will tell you that visual basic is simple and that is now obsolete.
However people who want to get stuff done and want to do things within a reasonable amount of time will use visual basic.
C++ is not used much nowadays except for things like game programming, because games require a lot of processor power or for making simulators and operating systems.

>>15
Sure: {∅}

>>16
LOL

>>16
Also, should I even consider trying Java or another language at this time?
Well, what kinds of programs do you want to write?

>>19
You might want to reply to the /g/ thread where the question was actually asked.

>>20
REPLY TO MY ANUS

>>21
You might want to go back to whence you came.

>>22
to whence
Quit abusing English.

>>23
You might want to go back to whence you came
             idem            wherefrom you came
             idem            where you came from.

>>24
That expansion doesn't work in this context, because the whence also implies the to.

I'm sorry;
You might want to return back heading to the place of your outset whence you originally came from as you set out.

That's even worse; you've also misused a semicolon now.