From: "Brett W. Denner" Date: 2001-07-11T00:35:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17619] Re: Ruby standardization (was Re: Ruby on Slashdot) Paul Brannan wrote: > I guess what I'd like to see is not necessarily a standard, but really > really thorough documentation. The pickaxe book is good, but not > complete. Unfortunately, such a document would probably be at least as > long as the C99 standard (about 550 pages), and someone would have to > maintain it, which is no small task. When I first came across Perl six years ago, the two things that I found most appealing about it were its lack of user memory management (malloc and the like; I came from a C/C++ background) and its extensive documentation. Ruby is a terrific language, but a lack of complete and rigorous documentation could inhibit its more widespread adoption. Brett Denner -- Brett W. Denner Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. email: Brett.W.Denner@lmco.com PO Box 748, MZ 9332 phone: 817-935-1144 Fort Worth, TX 76101 fax: 817-935-1212