From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T03:51:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:48:36AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> Chad Perrin wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 03:35:22AM +0900, Hal Fulton wrote:
> >
> >>M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >>
> >>>I wonder if there's anything -- an OS, a language, an editor, a
> >>>programming philosophy -- for which we could get *everyone* on this list
> >>>to say, "<xxx> sucks!"
> >>
> >>MSDOS, COBOL, notepad, static typing?
> >
> >
> >I take it you missed the earlier discussion re: static typing, in which
> >some concluded it isn't all bad.
> 
> I had a hard time filling in the last part, so I
> put that partly for troll value.
> 
> I couldn't think of any paradigm that came before
> "structured programming." GOTOful programming?
> Unstructured programming?

How 'bout just GWBASIC?

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