From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-09T07:35:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On Sunday 08 January 2006 04:52 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> On Jan 8, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:32 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> >> Sentences like the above always read to me as:  "Java was designed to
> >> protect the programmer from doing programmer things."  Always sounds
> >> funny to me.
> >
> > Hi Edward,
>
> James actually.  ;)
>
> > And that's why I enjoy programming in languages like Ruby, Python
> > and Java, that protect me from myself.
>
> Wow, that's a might unusual alliance of languages.  I wonder how most
> Java programmers would feel about being lumped in with Python and
> Ruby on safety...

Hi James,

Compare them to C :-). Or Perl.

Steve Litt
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