From: A Bull in the China Shop of Life <feoh@...>
Date: 2001-07-09T13:35:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17527] Re: Ruby on Slashdot

At 01:28 PM 7/9/01 +0900, Michael Davis spewed forth:
>I love Ruby and I prefer to avoid the committee idea.

Just a newbie, and I don't want to ruin the glorious S/N ratio we have here 
but I must say I don't feel that this community would really benefit much 
from the standardization process.

Standardization IMO helps when as a f'rinstance you have 2 or more dueling 
camps vying for THEIR implementation's superiority, all trying in some 
sense or other to be 'compatible' - like Java/ECMAScript which folks have 
cited.

Ruby is one single language with on the whole one mainstream implementation 
- compatibility between implementations in this case would be much easier 
to maintain.

If there are multiple Ruby implementations (I don't know of others than 
Matz's) maybe a nice simple language feature test suite would make sure all 
our collective ducks are in a row without requiring someone to be 
bludgeoned to death by tedious committee meetings and a multi-year 
committment of time and brain-power that again IMO could be better spent 
improving the core language :)

Just my $.02 I'll shut up and lurk hard now :)

-Chris