From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T05:24:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23223] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Nathaniel Talbott <ntalbott@rolemodelsoft.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:23203] Re: Bruce Eckel's opinion of Ruby


> Tobias Reif [mailto:tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com] wrote:
> 
> > Emiliano wrote:
> > 
> > > Ruby certainly allows for
> > > very elegant coding. It also allows for job-security coding.
> > 
> > 
> > What's "job-security coding"?
> 
> http://www.web-hits.org/txt/codingunmaintainable.html gives a very good
> explanation of it. Every time I *think* about this page I crack up.

Thanks for that link, Nathaniel... I just read about a third of it,
and it went straight into my bookmarks.

In the words of Yogi Berra, "That was a real tour de France."

Hal