From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-10T01:17:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On Monday 09 January 2006 08:26 am, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> I guess it comes down to this: worrying that something like dynamic
> method redefinition is going to "bite" you, or "shoot you in the
> foot", or whatever, at random times, without warning, is a bit like
> worrying that your C program is going to erase all the files on your
> hard drive.  If you don't want it to, don't tell it to, and it won't.

To get Ruby to do bad stuff, you need to enunciate quite clearly that you want 
it to do something bad. To get C to do something bad, a muffled mumble could 
be interpreted (compiled :-) by C to do something bad.

Nobody's infallable. C is much more unforgiving of programmer error than Ruby.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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