Last year the local Barnes&Nobles reserved several large shelves for the
scripting world: Perl, JavaScript, etc.
Recently they were removed. Now it’s time consuming to find the Larry’s
book, it’s even harder to find others (Python, Ruby, etc).
The scripting world seems to suffer from the struggle of the economy,
but the indonesian language section (Java) is still overcrowded.
Have you ever noticed the big displays on the way into Barnes & Noble,
showcasing the newest books and bestsellers? Did you ever notice how,
after a few weeks, those displays are replaced with new displays, with
even newer books? Why would you assume that they’d adopt a different
policy for their computer books?
Don’t misunderstand me, I like Barnes & Noble a lot (and in fact shopped
there earlier this evening) but I’ve never confused them with a
technical bookstore. They load up their shelves with whatever’s hot (in
terms of buzzword compliance) at the time, and then rotate those out for
the next big thing; for example, I’ve noticed an explosion of books on
C# and .NET at my local Barnes & Noble over the last few months.
BTW, how old (or young) is Ruby? It is guessed that nine years is the
test of time for a new language to become mainstream. Is it true?
According to this post (courtesy of the FAQ):
http://www.ruby-talk.org/blade/00382
Ruby was born in February 1993, which must therefore mean that Ruby has
been mainstream for some eight months now. I wonder if anyone has
informed Matz?
Ruby was born in February 1993, which must therefore mean that Ruby has
been mainstream for some eight months now. I wonder if anyone has
informed Matz?
eight MONTHS…let’s see… ; )
Ruby was born in February 1993, which must therefore mean that Ruby has
been mainstream for some eight months now. I wonder if anyone has
informed Matz?
eight MONTHS…let’s see… ; )
That is of course using the OP’s metric that “… nine years is the test
of time for a new language to become mainstream”. If Ruby was born in
February 1993, then nine years later (in February 2002) it officially
hit the mainstream. That was eight months ago.
Good grief. I really, really must remember to start placing
tags around my posts.
