[ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat

[Chris Fowler]

> From: "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Sent: Wednesday, August 5, 2015 11:44:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat

> For my money, I'd rather people write software in computer programming
> languages where all of the corner cases and undefined circumstances are
> well-understood; using C++ and multiple inheritance is just as easy as Java
> and interfaces, and far easier than Python or Ruby with its meta/eigenclass
> mechanisms.

Maybe a vocational issue. I came up with a term called "vocational programmers". These are folks that program as a job. I have some guys in India that help me out and some of the stuff they do I just don't understand why. 

I've been working on a service that runs in Windows to provide information back to a management device. In the field I have no access to the server it is running on so I instructed them to add a SOAP service in the agent so I could check status, send commands, etc. I also told them to write a simple test program. Their test program was huge. Communications to the agent was async. Their test was written as sync. Thread for read, write, etc. I could not understand why they could not just do a connect,read, write, read,write,...,., close. It was written in C#. I ran it on my device using mono. 
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