From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2009-02-13T14:23:37+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

pat eyler wrote:

> At work, we've already been bitten by 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7 problems.
> I can't tell you how much I don't want to see 1.8.8 move even
> further away from 1.8.6.
> 
> Please, leave the 1.8 line as compatible as possible, leave
> the API breakage to the 1.8 -> 1.9 migration.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Zachary Brown <zac@zacbrown.org>
> wrote:
> > As a new Ruby user coming to the language, I've found it fairly
> > confusing as to which Ruby I should be using. I understand that
> > 1.8.6 via Pickaxe is a standard and so is 1.9.1 via David Black's
> > upcoming book.
> > 

Have you at work been using practices as egregiously substandard
as top-posting?