From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-05-03T22:27:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14588] Re: Ruby code: the lost generation

On Thu, 3 May 2001, David Alan Black wrote:

> It feels like a lot of Ruby energy gets dissipated, in the absence of
> some way to harness this realm of code.  Of course we can all
> cut-and-paste good code from ruby-talk -- and maybe it will turn out
> that any other approach ends up just being a fancy way to achieve more
> or less that effect.  But I do wonder whether there's some more
> systematic way to leverage the (to me) sometimes startlingly powerful
> little language enhancements and extensions that get thrown around.
> Some way for very small, even tiny, libraries and tweakings to travel,
> almost style-sheet-like, with larger bodies of code.  Or something.
> 
> I know I'm starting to dovetail with other discussions (raa.succ,
> ideas about dynamic library retrieval, etc.), and indeed all of this
> flows into the same stream.  I just keep coming back to this
> particular take on it, which I think is potentially quite important.
> 
I've taken the view that rubygarden.com would solvemany of these issues
and I thought you were one of its developers. Would this mail indicate
that rubygarden has different goals or means or simply that the
development of it has come to a halt? Would be a shame...

/Robert