From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2008-03-31T00:23:08+09:00
Subject: Re: What is Ruby's biggest strength ?

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 30, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Tuan Minh wrote:
>  > But you praise it as beauty, art language..etc, however, why don't you
>  > give some examples to prove those opinion.
>
>  Perhaps the onus is now on you to try it and experience these things
>  for yourself.
>
>  Programming is not art in the same way that painting is--you don't
>  wander down a hall and look at things on the wall. Programming is art
>  in the sense of craft--you come to appreciate it through doing it.

Or to extend the analogy, be like the art students I always saw in
museums.  Whenever I got the opportunity to roam the halls of the
Louvre or the Prado, I inevitably saw students with easels, not just
looking at the works, but trying to learn from them by
"reimplementing" them in their own way.


-- 
Rick DeNatale

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