From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-03-19T22:09:05+09:00 Subject: Re: OSNEWS: The International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest "David A. Black" writes: > Hi -- > > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Erik Veenstra wrote: > >> >> The front page of OS News [1] mentions "The International >> Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest": >> >> 'Obfuscation' is to make something difficult or unusually >> obscure. One of the ironies of Ruby programming is the general >> desire of Rubyists to believe that a goal to accomplish >> readability in code overshadows even at times its >> functionality. > > I've never, ever heard any Ruby programmer say that. Me neither. However, I don't know what happens between Eugenias ears to write something like that. This statement does not seem to orginate from the IORCC people (should this be not true, I distance myself from the statement). > David -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org