From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T19:55:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23173] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Tobias Reif wrote:

> David Alan Black wrote:
>
> > Hello --
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Paul Brannan wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I also find myself reinventing the wheel in Ruby a lot, because some
> >>library doesn't exist for Ruby or it doesn't work the way I want it to.
> >>
> >
> > s/re// # in the circumstances you're describing :-)
>
>
> I don't understand that. What's your point?


Simply that if Ruby doesn't already have a (working) library of a given type,
then Paul is *inventing* the wheel, not reinventing it.


David

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