Why Ruby?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Dec 13 15:54:03 PST 2010


Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> By the way, I couldn't stop cringing at the distasteful, male-centric 
> sexual jokes that the talk is peppered with. Wonder if there was any 
> woman in the audience, and how she might have felt. And this is not a 
> ghetto rant - it's the keynote of a major Ruby conference! (And I'm 
> definitely not a prude.) Am I alone in thinking that this is not what 
> our metier should evolve into?

I thought the foul language, dirty jokes, etc., were inappropriate for a 
keynote. I had had enough and stopped watching about 2/3 of the way through.


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