From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T07:34:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Conflicts between using respond_to? and extending Ruby

Hi --

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, ara.t.howard wrote:

> this whole thread is pretty interesting though - it shows how flexible we as 
> programmers have to be to accommodate the openness ruby.  i think some people 
> would point out this as a weakness because we have to think and talk about 
> these things but, in reality, it's only an issue in pretty sticky situations 
> - situations i personally don't attempt to get myself in using less powerful 
> languages.
>
> the language choice does indeed change the way we think about problems and, 
> as such, cannot truly be equivalent for a given task when compared to other 
> languages - contrary to what turing would tell us ;-)

I've always thought that the situation with programming languages is a
lot like that with musical instruments: they (languages or
instruments) all do the same thing (implement algorithms or make
music), but there's no denying, in either case, that different ones
have very different properties and provide very different experiences.


David

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