From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2007-05-11T06:05:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Defending Ruby's OOP

On 5/10/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Tell him to find a more substantial argument. That's the lamest complaint I
> > > think I've ever heard about Ruby or dynamic languages in general.
> > >
> > > Or better yet, tell him to design a language that has "if" "unless" etc as
> > > objects and see where that goes. What does having if/unless as objects even
> > > mean?
> >
> > It's like saying the car is inferior to the horse because you can't
> > feed the car oats.
>
> I'm patiently waiting for the Oatsmobile.

And once you get one, you can declare yourself to be Oatman!  I'm not
sure what superpowers that brings, besides being 'regular'.


-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)
The best answer to most questions is "it depends".