“Five million, bitches” —my new reply every time someone mentions Ruby
A friend of mine is learning to program, and how to learn a programming language came up.
The issue is that there is a lot of people who are non-programmers and have taken programming classes and not learned to program. When I was a kid, those languages were BASIC, Logo, and Karel the Robot, now they are things like C#, Java, and Ruby. Still the same problem rears its ugly head.