From: Alexandru Popescu Date: 2006-06-04T01:26:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Where can one find examples of masterful Ruby code? On 6/3/06, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > James Britt writes: > > > Semi-rhetorical questions: If you are not already well-versed in > > Ruby, how do you know you are reading masterful code? > > > > If you are reading masterful code, can one appreciate what makes it > > masterful without a firm knowledge of Ruby? > > I'd say that I'm pretty well-versed in Ruby. I have not yet seen much > masterful code. I'm not sure I could point out a medium-sized piece > of Ruby that's *truly* and *completely* masterful. Sure, the "Quality > Without A Name" turns up here and there, but I just don't find > something that is completely soaked with it. Maybe I just have too > high expectations. Prove me wrong, please. > > > Is the definition of "masterful" conditional? If so, on what? > > Does masterful code get less and less the more you advance? > Does masterful code only exist in languages you don't know that well? > (I somehow feel like there is plenty of masterful Haskell code out > there...) > I'd say that this depends very much on your definition of "masterful" code. In case it means, code that you're not able yet to write, than indeed, in time you will find less and less (hopefully :-) ). IMO 'masterful' code just means, nice, clean and following the best practices of the language/domain addressed by that code. After about 10 years of Java, I can find 'masterful' code in a lot of places. ./alex -- .w( the_mindstorm )p. > > James > -- > Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org > >