From: Pat Maddox <pergesu@...>
Date: 2006-12-05T13:52:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Ruby philosophy

On 12/4/06, Edwin Fine <efine145-nospam01@usa.net> wrote:
> James Gray wrote:
> > I'm with Ruby's natural tendency on this issue:  trust the programmer.
>
> Sorry, but I don't think it's enough to trust the programmer - at least,
> most of them. For every thoughtful, careful, circumspect programmer out
> there, there are 100 or more clueless, undisciplined, lazy, and/or just
> plain stupid programmers (of course none of the people on this forum
> fall into this category :)

You either trust the programmer or you don't.  There's no in between,
no way to trust some programmers.  Last I checked, no compiler or
interpretter has an IQ test during the installation.

If you think the computer is smarter than you or your coworkers, than
Ruby isn't for you.  If you're smarter than the computer, then it's
probably a good match.

Pat