From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T23:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] The "Ruby Best Practices" Collaborative Blog

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:14:27 +0900
Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Gregory Brown
> <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> 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")
> ?

Well, I would feel stupid, but I also don't see this advocated anywhere.

-- 
^ manveru