From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-12-19T22:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Two feature requests for safer Ruby Programming

On 12/19/07, Marc Heiler <shevegen@linuxmail.org> wrote:
> > Ruby can do is to enforce having '()'  for method invocation.
>
> How would that make them better programmers?
>
> Enforcing behaviour sounds like the wrong way to go. You'd end up like
> python - with fewers abilities to ever escape the mindset. And no way
> to type "quit" in interactive python mode leading to quit that damn
> thi** ;-)
>
> Maybe the person in question just does not know either ruby, or the
> parent class(es) he is using?

Picking up on something Dave Thomas said in a talk I just watched
online,  If the OP is afraid of letting his team use sharp scissors,
perhaps he should look elsewhere for a programming language.

-- 
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/