From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T07:14:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Sharp knives and glue

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Hopefully without interrupting quite an interesting discussion -
I think my question has been answered.

Sadly, my friend can't do anything about the particularly poor programmer
in his team because that programmer is the "lead developer". He is lead
developer because he has been there writing terrible code for so long.

Even more sadly, I will stop recommending Ruby for that environment because
I imagine that enforcing some discipline should at least control what comes
out of the bad code even if the internals are incomprehensible and the
results likely to be wrong in many circumstances.

I just have a hard time accepting that we can't just all program in Ruby
all the time! I have tried using IRB as a shell! I am eagerly awaiting
QtRuby
for Windows! I wish I could somehow load Ruby into my little ARM processor
based embedded devices and kiss C and Assembler goodbye! (ie. in 32k of
RAM!)

So then my only remaining hope is that at some point we'll have "Razelle"
and
then I will be happy:   http://www.arm.com/products/esd/jazelle_home.html

;-)

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