From: Robert Dober Date: 2009-04-16T17:14:27+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] The "Ruby Best Practices" Collaborative Blog On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Gregory Brown wrote: It is about ok in Google Reader, which has the adavantage to open the blog in a tab (at least in Firefox), thus I am perfectly happy, but I cannot speak for others. Now for something completely different: R A N T: Personally I am very unhappy with the language that is applied by about everybody nowadays, in your example, why "bastard". Why??? MERDE, ok now I did it too ;) Actually that is only mildly offending, I have seen and heard much worse than that recently, e.g. in the Mountain West Ruby Conf.... R E A S O N: It is very difficult to evaluate the natural evolution of a language that is not your own (and it might be as difficult with your own language, but I am out of contact with my own language, "Na Servas!!!"). I am therefor obliged to unhappily accept all lectures that will be given now :(. BTW Rick are you reading this, will you support me? Q U E S T I O N: When we program in Ruby and write File.open( "xxx" ) do | f | f.readlines end do we not feel stupid? Do we not have any pride to replace this with File.readlines("xxx") ? Is the usage of four letter words or "bastard" to be interpreted like a counter point, does it have elegance or does it express emotional attachment. Or do I have to acknowledge that I am old (OMG, I might even die, eventually) Please enlighten me. What about English Best Practices ( for Foreigners )? A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T: Great Blog for the rest. -- Si tu veux construire un bateau ... Ne rassemble pas des hommes pour aller chercher du bois, préparer des outils, répartir les tâches, alléger le travail… mais enseigne aux gens la nostalgie de l’infini de la mer. If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry