[ruby-talk:02207] Re: Scripting and OO -- thought question

From: David Douthitt
> | Conrad Schneiker wrote:
...
> | The basic problem here is that if you don't show people your (suitably
> | sanitized if necessary) code (or at least representative critical pieces
of
> | your code), the answers you get to such questions will be based largely
on
> | people's imagination, which may or may not have anything to do with the
> | most relevant factors in this case. (Maybe you should have been using
Perl
> | 5 with compiled regular expressions instead of Perl 4. Maybe you were
> | somehow doing unnecessary or unbuffered I/O without realizing it. Maybe
> | your were building some sort of table or index for your HTML output that
> | inadvertently did something in an O(n**2) fashion. Maybe you stashed
> | everything in memory on a machine with insufficient RAM. Maybe any
number
> | of other things....)
>
> Behave!  Be nice!  :-)  You get out of bed on the wrong side this morning?
> Remember to SMILE when you say that!  :-)

???? What on earth brought that on?

I've seen some pretty bizzare reactions at the mention of P**l in non-P**l
forums before, but nothing quite like this. :-)

Conrad