From: Albert Wagner <alwagner@...>
Date: 2002-09-03T23:14:29+09:00
Subject: OT: Just browsing...

This is really just Sort-of_Off_Topic.  I am currently in a state of 
code-burnout and was browsing the web to clear my head.  Someone on this 
list, I think, is a principle on this wiki.  I forget how I found it.  I have 
noticed that whenever there is any kind of code challenge, by common 
agreement the metrics by which the entrees are judged are only speed and 
keystrokes.  I personally always feel incompetent to send in an entry, 
because my experience has been business apps where correctness, 
maintainability (read: where it's not the language that confuses the 
maintainer but rather the implemented algorithm), and mutability.  At any 
rate, I ran across this wiki page:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MostGamesProgrammersDontGrokObjectOrientation

It seems that many Ruby programmers have a "game progammer" mentality.

Albert