From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2005-01-25T17:52:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jim Weirich wrote:
> On Monday 24 January 2005 07:36 pm, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > I can't get rid of the lingering feeling that Ruby is still somewhat
> > immature/unpolished.  [...]
> > Some things I still have no explanation for, such as why there are
> > mutually incompatible Time and DateTime classes with different
> > functionality.
> Actually, if you consider Java, incompatible Date/Time structures with 
> deprecated APIs indicate a _mature_ language.

Actually, if you consider Java, incompatible int/Integer structures with
mutually-exclusive feature sets indicate a _pure_ language.

My point is, don't use Java as an example for anything.

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