From: Rich Morin <rdm@...>
Date: 2006-10-16T15:17:51+09:00
Subject: Re: "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass"

FYI, here is a quote which seems relevant to Ruby:

  Although the possibility of program modification at
  run-time was heralded  as one of the great consequences
  of John von Neumann's profound idea of storing
  program and data in the same memory, it quickly turned
  out to enable a dangerous technique and to constitute an
  unlimited source of pitfalls.  Program code must remain
  untouched, if the search for errors was not to become a
  nightmae.  Program's self-modification was recognized as
  an extremely bad idea.
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