From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T07:38:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hunt" <andy@toolshed.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby


> Denys Usynin goes on to say:
>
>     >  after all, isn't the whole purpose of OO programming to let the
person
>     >think as a human instead of trying to think as a machine?
>
>
> "the tools we are trying to use and the language or notation
> we are using to express or record our thoughts are the major
> factors determining what we can think or express at all!"
>
>                   -- Edsger W. Dykstra
>          ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1972

"Language shapes the way we think and determines
what we can think about."
                  Benjamin Whorf

"Those who doubt the importance of a convenient notation
should try writing a LISP interpreter in COBOL or doing
long division with Roman numerals."
                  Hal Fulton


:)
Hal