From: "David A. Black" Date: 2005-12-07T07:54:14+09:00 Subject: Re: Subclassing Class. Hi -- On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 gwtmp01@mac.com wrote: > > On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:43 PM, David A. Black wrote: > >> On Dec 6, 2005, at 11:19 AM, David A. Black wrote: > >>> This is different. First of all, Ruby is a work by Matz, not any > >>> of us. > >> > >> With all due respect to Matz, I think Ruby is now much more than the > >> work of a single person. Without a doubt, the community continues to > >> benefit from his leadership and there is no reason to think that that > >> won't continue but let's not pass over all the other contributors. > > > > Let's not pass over the sentence right after the one you quoted > > either :-) > > For the record, that next sentence was: > > But, granting that single authorship is not really the whole story > > here, > > Yeah, I should have acknowledged that in my response, but I didn't > catch it > until after responding. I still would have responded, but perhaps more > obliquely. > > I think I missed 'part2' in first reading because of such a direct, > unambiguous statement just before it. I just don't know what to make of: > "Ruby is a work by Matz, not any of us" in the midst of a discussion of > language semantics. That sounded too much like "proof by authority" for > my liking nor is that what I see going on in the Ruby community. Matz is, by his account, a "benevolent dictator" :-) It's a great community, but in terms of the technical side of Ruby (as opposed to what someone may want to do with a website design, or something) it's not a democracy. It works out very well, though. David __ David A. Black dblack@wobblini.net "Ruby for Rails", forthcoming from Manning Publications, April 2006!