From: Josh Charles <josh.charles@...>
Date: 2005-08-20T02:27:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Specifications

> So, I don't think this makes Ruby a "hacker" language.  Any hacker can
> use ANSI C or C# or PHP or Python or Perl or Ruby and make a mockery of
> the language and version updates.  A professional programmer and
> >>vendor<< will know that producing a valuable product for his/her
> client requires responsibility, building stability into their product,
> and following a protective process in upgrading.

in the case of .NET, however, the changes that are going to happen
have been documented ahead of time so that you can plan.  The Specs
for C# 2.0 have been around for what, 2 years now?  The change to
generics and other things is going to break alot of currently working
.NET code, but that change is still several months in the future,
giving everyone alot of time to prepare.

I think that a well communicated roadmap would be alot better than
specs.  Does such a roadmap exist for ruby?  I don't know.  I'm new
here.