From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T14:07:37+09:00
Subject: Re: What are your favorite Ruby features?

Phlip wrote:

> Many of the items you list, such as "metaprogramming", or "easy to
> create DSLs", are now must-have features for any language, going
> forward. That is Ruby's impact on the industry.

Those existed in Lisp, Scheme and Forth, but Ruby made them *popular*
and quite a bit more readable.

> Another way to make MP safe might be Aspect Oriented Programming. I
> suspect that AOP is actually Monkey Patching, with the added benefit you
> can declare which modules see the patch and which see the classic behavior.

Well ... there *are* AOP languages. Does anybody use them? :)



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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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