From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-09T23:34:37+09:00
Subject: Re: A major ruby annoyance!

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Gennady Bystritsky wrote:

> It is plain beautiful -- to call "poorly designed language" something hugely
> popular and successful as C. Doesn't it bother you that Ruby itself is
> written in such a trash? Poor Matz, he must have known better when choosing
> his implementation language.
>
> For your record, C does perfectly what it was supposed to do, not more no
> less. Even years of its evolution did not introduce anything totally
> orthogonal to its initial "poor" design. Blindly dismissing C, without (as I
> understand) much experience with it, does not do you any service, other than
> coo-coo sign behind your back.

you are so wrong : it opens up job opportunities for the rest of us!  ;-)

cheers.

-a
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