From: Bob Calco <rcalco@...>
Date: 2002-02-12T04:55:41+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby browser similar to Smalltalk browsers?


# My money at the moment is on the FreeRIDE project
# (www.rubyide.org), spearheaded by Curt Hibbs. There
# is already some code (much of it written by Rich Kilmer,
# who codes like the wind)

An understatement to put it mildly - the guy breathes code, and without it
turns purple. Just try to have a long conversation, even by chat, with
him -- he starts gasping and gagging and begging to return to his laptop.

I'm not kidding!

#but at present it is even more
# alpha-ware than any of the others, I think.
#
# One nice thing about this project is that it has so many
# programmers that they can't all be lazy at once. As for me,
# I haven't yet contributed a single line of code...
#

Aaahhh, the "dozing programmer" problem, which, like the "dining
philosopher" problem upon which it is based, is centered around a few simple
activities:

	* Eating
	* Coding
	* Sleeping
	* Answering Newsgroup mail

Oddly enough, no matter what algorithm you use to write it, by far the most
time consuming task for each developer in the simulation always ends up
being "answering newsgroup mail"... sleeping is of course dead last in the
list by a long shot... eating and coding are about the same but combined
constitute only about 15% of the time...

Wonder why...

 ;)

-- Bob Calco

# Cheers,
# Hal Fulton