From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T05:36:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

Hi .. 

 On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:31, Dick Davies wrote:
>
> But they don't 'wield them', do they? Not unless they're the size of king
> kong, at least.
>
Taken an axe to them is close :-)

> > The question that I personally ask myself is, given these comments, why
> > would I want to use Rails when there are lots of alternatives?
>
> The simple answer is 'because it's really good.'
>
So are IOWA, Nitro, Wee .. and the list goes on.

> The next question that springs to mind is:
> 'what the hell does the developers personality have to do with your choice
> of tools?'

That is a good question.  Pragmatically, none.  As I grow older, I find that 
pragmatics matters less "doing the right thing", being "karmically clean", to 
use West Coast speak.  It is a personal choice of mine, like trying to use as 
much freeware, or paying for shareware even when I can get the keys.  Just my 
personal choice.

Regards,

-- 
-mark.  (probertm at acm dot org)