From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2008-04-25T23:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Minimalism

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 8:10 AM, aidy <aidy.lewis@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have been reading a WikiPedia piece on Minimalist Computing (http://
>  tinyurl.com/6h83b3). Could we argue that Ruby is a minimal language?

I'm having a hard time believing this qualifies as an actual movement,
as opposed to the product of some Wikipedist with an agenda and too
much time on his or her hands.

Some apps, languages, or devices are small, simple, and do one thing
well.  Others are large, complex, and do many things.  Others are
large, complicated, and do a few things poorly.  Deriving some kind of
overarching movement from the fact that the small, simple constructs
exist is a stretch.

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