From: Eric Hodel Date: 2006-02-03T07:04:19+09:00 Subject: Re: The Seattle Brigade Chats with Bruce Eckel On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:43 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote: > On Feb 1, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Robert Klemme wrote: > >> Phil Tomson wrote: >>> In article <43DA42DD.4030907@neurogami.com>, >>> James Britt wrote: >>>> Quite impressive. >>>> >>>> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=146091 >>> >>> Wow. Kudos to the Seattle.rb folks. It's great when you can move >>> someone from the "biased against you" camp into the "gee, the >>> language has some interesting features" camp. >> >> Definitely. Although I have to admit that I find the selection of >> features Bruce chose a bit strange. Although he mentions blocks this >> would rather be something I had at the top of my list. Anyway, >> let's see >> how this develops. > > Yeah, some of the examples bugged me too, like Array#dump (which is > just `puts array`). > > Ah well, he tried to learn a little. Have to give points for that. Its my bad, I filled his brain up with too much standard library and how this and that are done to actually sit down and write code and give him a feel for how the libraries all really work, so you can blame me. -- Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant http://trackmap.robotcoop.com