From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-06-27T05:54:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Named/positional method args

> > Yuck.
>
> Is the "formalist" in you disturbed by this?
>
> I think too many programmers feel that way too. See, I wonder when we
> ever are going to get past conforming to the requirements of our
> computer systems, and start having them conform to ours.

Not so fast Tom, not my generation, we have come from Assembler or
Fortran, we have been marveled by Ada (or Smalltalk, at least some
lucky guys I will not name)
than astonished by the powers of Perl and Python before falling in
love with Ruby.
*Our minds have happily adapted to the lesser formal needs as we have
gone along!
It is for the next generation to have that, -- your's probably :)

You are completely right of course but it depends on the users of
these systems too and that slows that process down a little bit, sigh.

Robert

-- 
You see things; and you say Why?
But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
-- George Bernard Shaw