From: Justin Collins <collinsj@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T11:24:22+09:00
Subject: Re: "more than enough rope"

Giles Bowkett wrote:
>> I've wondered this too after I've written something that looks a bit
>> too clever for its own good.
> ...
>> Usually, when something
>> looks like Ruby for Ruby's sake, it's because before I wrote it, I
>> wasn't good enough to understand it (never figured out how that
>> works...).  If I feel like a better programmer afterwards, it stays.
>
> The "if I feel like a better programmer afterwards" thing seems to be
> the litmus test. The main thing I'm thinking of, it was actually a
> thread here a little while back, it uses eval() and
> instance_variable_set() to create a little search controller in Rails
> that can handle simple searches on a wide range of models. It does a
> lot in a very small space, I was very proud of it. In fact I love it
> so much that sometimes I buy it chocolates and sing to it. I showed it
> to somebody as a code sample, in an interview process. The person I
> showed it to dissed it. I told him that he must be a Philistine and a
> servant of Satan, and the company broke off the interview process,
> apparently upset that it had gotten so Biblical.

That's hilarious :)

-Justin


(Still grinning)