by Mark Driver | October 10, 2008 | 13 Comments
The Merb framework for Ruby has reached the big 1.0 with an impressive list of features. If you’ve never heard of it, consider Merb a second generation Ruby framework that takes many of the (sometime painful) lessons learned in Rails and applies them to a blank canvas. I’ve predicted in Gartner research that the Ruby [...]
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by Mark Driver | October 9, 2008 | 50 Comments
I’ve often referred to Smalltalk as the ‘Latin’ of modern OO languages. Most owe a tremendous debt to Smalltalk but the language itself has been relegated to a small niche of technology elites for several years now. Here a simply equation. In terms of mental fortitude… 1 Smalltalk developer = 2.5 C++ developers 1 C++ [...]
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