From: Jim Wise Date: 2011-04-14T00:32:18+09:00 Subject: Re: functional paradigm taking over --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Peter Hickman writes: > "When in a hole, stop digging" > > There seems to be an inverse relationship between number of words > being used and what is being communicated. Speaking as a relatively new member of the list, I feel the whole thread is giving a poor (and presumably inaccurate) impression of the forum as a whole and the Ruby community. My own impression is that the more languages a programmer knows, the less interested he becomes in such distinctions ("What do they know of Ruby who only Ruby know?" perhaps?). Certainly the types of distinctions now being heatedly argued in this thread strike me as not particularly relevant to programming languages in general or Ruby in particular. If we now, dozens of messages later, decide that some system people are happily using to things that interest them is, in fact, a programming language (or is not, in fact, a programming language), then what? Maybe those still interested in this argument can take it off-list at this point? =2D-=20 Jim Wise jwise@draga.com --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (SunOS) iEYEARECAAYFAk2lwd0ACgkQHDchQepTnhT//gCggwo9jRiJZVibEZvGPXyiB5nw qi0An3MfD6UBqlYmwsOmTaZxjiHsvxlj =AgxM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--