I had a colleague 20 years ago choose RoR for a multi-million dollar hospital software project despite the fact that he was the only programmer within 150 miles with even a rudimentary knowledge of it. I say “multi-million dollar” because that’s what it ended up costing to develop it; the only revenue it ever generated was an initial $60K from the client, and even that ended up being refunded after three years and a system that still didn’t work.
I wasn’t on the project myself, but I did get to sit in on a client meeting where this guy said “but we’ve written six times as much test code as application code” and expected that to somehow mollify the client.
Hey, I know this really obscure programming language that’s totally cool. It’s called Python. You should try it sometimes.
No, thanks—I prefer doing things in R.
Amateurs. Try Ruby.
I had a colleague 20 years ago choose RoR for a multi-million dollar hospital software project despite the fact that he was the only programmer within 150 miles with even a rudimentary knowledge of it. I say “multi-million dollar” because that’s what it ended up costing to develop it; the only revenue it ever generated was an initial $60K from the client, and even that ended up being refunded after three years and a system that still didn’t work.
I wasn’t on the project myself, but I did get to sit in on a client meeting where this guy said “but we’ve written six times as much test code as application code” and expected that to somehow mollify the client.
Don’t make me pull out my fancy plots.