From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-01-25T01:36:22+09:00
Subject: Re: RANT: Ruby GUI API

Albert Wagner wrote:

>> I don't want to change Qt.  I want to change the QT Ruby API.
> 
> It's open source.  Have at it.  But if I were the author of the Qt
> bindings and had already put in actual hours working for free...Oh, you
> know.

Oh, yeah, I know what you mean.  If it isn't constructive, then it can be a 
problem.  However, if I leverage off his bindings and change the names, or 
add convenience methods, and thereby produce a "better", more intuitive, 
more Rubyesque, API, then we have a net gain.

Evolution.  We wouldn't have Ruby if Matz had been satisfied with Perl.  If 
you go browse the various Perl and Python chat archives, you'll find a lot 
of people complaining about what a waste and duplication of effort Ruby is. 
Heck, every time Ruby is mentioned on /., it evokes a slew of vitriolic 
commentary about how much Ruby sucks just by its mere existance, and that 
we should be satisfied with perl/python/tcl/awk.

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