From: Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T22:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Conflicts between using respond_to? and extending Ruby

On Oct 22, 6:12 pm, "Rick DeNatale" <rick.denat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/22/07, David A. Black <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Not to mention different, and sometimes VERY different techniques to
> 'play' them.
>

For instance, playing a brass or woodwind instrument simply requires a
rest every now and then.

I'm not sure what the programming language analog is, maybe memory
management in C or something.

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-yossef