From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T05:50:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23088] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Eric Lee Green wrote:

> > > Java. I would not, however, relish attempting to manage 100K+ lines of
> > > Ruby code for a project, while Python proved to be quite usable for 100K+
> > > lines of code.
> >
> > I'd hold against your last sentence, but I never tried it out.
> > But maybe 100K lines in Python are just 50K in Ruby ;-)
> 
> Destructors are just another one of those features of Python which are 
> oriented towards making 100K+ line programs with multiple programmers 
> managable in Python. I like Ruby for one-programmer projects, but I just 
> can't see how it could scale well to multi-programmer multi-100K-line 
> projects. I've used Python in such large projects and it works quite well. 
> The compartmented namespace in particular was extremely useful for 
> partitioning tasks between programmers -- I could give them total freedom 
> over how they were to implement their part of the program without worry about 
> whether they'd tromp over one of my global configuration variables or etc. 
> 
Ok, I think I understand this better now.

In Ruby, if programmer A changes Array#[] it might affect other
programmers when system is integrated (;-)). I think this is solved in AOS
and a RubyOnAos solution may be in a position to address it. It would be a
problem with current Ruby solutions though...

In the Smalltalk community there has been a trend towards
namespaces. Maybe Ruby will have to follow?

Thanks,

Robert