From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2008-06-23T18:07:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Where does ruby excel?

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Michael T. Richter
<ttmrichter@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Personally I prefer JavaScript's prototype object system over Ruby's ...
Agree 100%
> pretty damned odd hybrid system.  Ruby's singleton classes, for example,
> look to me an awful lot like a kludge hacked on to give capabilities that
> come out of the box for prototype-based systems.
Although I feel "damned odd" exaggerated, I guess people are pretty
much aware of the shortcomings
of mixins and traits were not around when Ruby was created. When it
comes to singleton classes I rather
like them, but you are right that they would not be needed in a
prototyped class system and neither in
a traited system as long as traits are allowed to be applied to *any* object.
Now I see the advantage of traits over prototypes in the simple,
single feature of conflict resolution.
>
> That Javascript is a web-browser language only is a huge disadvantage.
<snip>
> I humbly submit that you haven't seen them because you've allowed prejudice
> to make you not look for them.  It took me less than five minutes of
> googling and hitting links to find the above stuff.
Good point Michael but would you mind sharing the links ;)?

Cheers
Robert


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