From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T23:28:11+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> On Sunday 10 October 2004 05:48 am, Brian Candler wrote:
>
> | "Personally I see Ruby as a stable platform to do real work on, not an
> | experimental platform for wannabe language designers."
> |
> | But then I realised it sounded bitchy as hell. No offence is intended to
> | anyone, so please substitute a less inflammatory statement of your
> | choosing.
> |
> | Regards,
> |
> | Brian.
> 
> Know what noise is? Another word for static. Know what static is? Something 
> that never changes. You know what something that never changes is?
> 
>   D E A D

I know no one who thinks, or has ever suggested, that Ruby should
never change.  (I used to muse about a feature freeze, but only a
two-year one :-)  I have, however, heard this "no change == dead"
thing thrown at people several times over the years, as a way of
lashing out at them, not because they think Ruby should never change
but either because they do not support a particular change or, perhaps
more often, because they do not have a vision of Ruby as a kind of
syntax soup (i.e., they think there are some ways in which Ruby should
NOT change, and/or some ways in which Ruby should not be changeable
programmatically).  I'd be perfectly happy never to hear it again.  

[...]

> Even so, I'm a nice guy. I feel for you. But you can't say I haven't tried 
> --I've pushed for a separate mailing list for this stuff for, lord knows, how 
> long now?

OK... but maybe that means there's no interest in it...?  


David

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