Joel Spolsky got one thing right

Thijs van der Vossen

01 Sep 2006

Although I fully agree with David that Joel Spolsky’s Language Wars is one of the purest forms of FUD against Ruby and Rails ever, I do think Joel got this one right:

I for one am scared of Ruby because (1) it displays a stunning antipathy towards Unicode […]

Sad as it may be, this fear is mostly justified.

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