From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-08-19T22:35:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Coming from Ruby (was: Re: When to use parentheses around method args?)


"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0408190521440.25339-100000@wobblini...

> It's time for us to break the cycle and declare ourselves to have Ruby
> backgrounds.  As much as we love Ruby, the community suffers from an
> inferiority complex: people are constantly doing this or that, or
> asking that such-and-such be added to Ruby, because of what is done in
> other languages.  Yes, Ruby is a modern, combinative language with all
> sorts of roots in other languages.  But it is not a pastiche; it's a
> real language, with a non-trivial userbase and non-negligible history
> of usage.

<snip>friendly rant</snip>

+1

    robert