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draw_down on Oct 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Fogbugz lost to Jira

You have a point, I guess I'm more flabbergasted by the particular language they chose to invent. Also, Fog Creek ain't exactly Ericsson or Sun.

protomyth on Oct 1, 2015 [–]

Fog Creek probably had more resource than Yukihiro Matsumoto, Larry Wall, and Guido van Rossum did.

vacri on Oct 1, 2015 | [–]

Ruby, Perl, and Python weren't meant to be in-house languages created to support a commercial product. Not to mention that in their infancies as hobby projects, they didn't have to hit sales deadlines.

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