> Thanks for the last little tidbit. I too agree programmers can be > creatives and creatives can definitely be programmers! I'm glad you > agree.
If you are looking for a good read on this subject, you can't overlook Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham (founder of YCombinator). It's a great book on the importance of creativity and design in software development. It also touches on the history of the major languages, the power of dynamic languages, and interesting ideas about how we might program 100 years from now. And really great advice on the types of jobs you should be taking in your career. The book was written a few years back (before Rails), and he mentions Ruby briefly as a promising language. I'd be curious to hear what he'd say now about Ruby in relation to Lisp now. After all, YCombinator is the incubator for Heroku. Good luck, Peter -- Peter Gumeson [email protected] -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
