From: William Crawford <wccrawford@...>
Date: 2006-08-25T00:58:28+09:00
Subject: Re: bad for Ruby in RUBY

Dave Rose wrote:
> prejudices....ANYthing the smells of Hack-idom will end any crusade for 
> this language... and i refer also to the movie Mattew Broaderik's WAR 
> GAMES....

I have to totally disagree with that.  As far as going mainstream, 
nothing helps as well as publicity.  Good or bad.  There will be an 
initial 'if you code in Ruby you must be a terrorist' phase, but then 
millions will defend that with 'it's just a tool' and negate any bad 
press while providing even more good press.

The usefulness of ASM and C for hacking has never hurt the popularity of 
those languages even a little bit.  There's no reason to think it'll 
happen here.

And you're forgetting something...  It's just a GAME.  Not even a unique 
one.  As was stated, this has been done several times in several 
languages.

I'm dying to see how he gets around Ruby's flexibility and preventing 
someone from totally hacking the system right off, without destroying 
that same flexibility and making the exercise worthless.

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