From: Jay Levitt <jay+news@...>
Date: 2008-01-03T08:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed Shaw - Ruby has dodged a bullet

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:58:51 -0500, Giles Bowkett wrote:

> I think that's why Rails has issues. "What would DHH do?" Well, he'd
> probably flip you the bird or something. Very very good leadership in
> terms of generating buy-in can be very very bad leadership in terms of
> setting the tone.

Exactly.  

Great as it may be, I think the word "opinionated" has a tendency to lead
people down two different, equally incorrect garden paths:

"opinionated", "agile", "YAGNI", "ignoring the wheel", "insufficient"

and

"opinionated", "obnoxious", "rude"

See also the constellation of:

"sarcasm", "snark", "derision", "scorn"


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