From: Glenn Parker Date: 2005-04-06T01:24:38+09:00 Subject: Re: fed up with this newsgroup B. K. Oxley (binkley) wrote: > Austin Ziegler wrote: > >> For all that, though, he is asking interesting questions from which >> people can learn > > I am finding the question about metaclasses to be of this sort. I > hadn't realized how richly Ruby borrowed from Smalltalk. It lifts the > spirit to see this design in a language with the reach of Ruby (Python, > too, in this respect). Umm, is it anything you couldn't learn by actually studying the Pickaxe? Maybe enduring this particular growing pain is just another chapter in the process of language maturation. Other newsgroups (e.g. lisp and python) have apparently graduated already. Those who actually respond to Ilias ought to start charging him for all the free consulting work, then maybe he would be motivated to engage his own brain and do some honest learning, instead of playing the intellectual greased pig. -- Glenn Parker | glenn.parker-AT-comcast.net |