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In 2007 the president of the University ACM chapter told me not to toy around with languages outside the CS curriculum, and that Ruby was a waste of time. I'm g
by sky_rw 3y ago
In 2007 the president of the University ACM chapter told me not to toy around with languages outside the CS curriculum, and that Ruby was a waste of time. I'm grateful everyday that I ignored his advice.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoWe learned Ruby in CS. It was in a "sampling of languages" class, which also included Rust (for which I'm very grateful)! Ruby was a cute curiosity, but Rust is a paradigm shift. :p
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoIn the one I took we did Prolog which has not exactly proven useful. I don’t think I ever used anything in that class, unlike most of the rest of the CS classes I took.
- bagels 3y agoMine was: Python, Prolog, Scheme Lisp. I thought it was great to get exposed to other types of languages that were possible.