From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T00:22:28+09:00
Subject: Re: speeding ruby development

Hi --

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:

> Charles Mills <cmills@freeshell.org> writes:
> 
> 
> >>
> >> What are you missing?
> >> What is supposed to be added to Ruby 2.0
> > See http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?Rite
> Well I'm very much suprised that most seem to appreciate Ruby 2. I
> have a very ungut feeling about it all has the "features" of the
> second system which Brooks describes in book the mythical man month.
> Do I have to remind you of the big troubles from Perl 4.x to Perl 5.x
> and then again from 5.x somewhat to 5.8? How long are they talking
> about Parrot now? 3 years? 

I too sometimes find myself worrying that Ruby 2.x will include too
many features and design additions... but when I feel that, what I
remind myself is: trust Matz :-)  Ruby 2 will be bigger than Ruby 1,
but I trust Matz to keep it non-bloated and, as he says, still Ruby.

I do hope that, as methods and libraries are added, others will
disappear, keeping the overall weight of the thing under control.


David

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David A. Black
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