From: Christoph <chr_news@...>
Date: 2002-09-07T12:41:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Larry Wall's comments on Ruby

"W Kent Starr" wrote

....
> OO isn't taught well IMO. "Pickaxe" is a rare exception. The irony is
> that Ruby is closely modelled in accordance with contemporary thinking
> in modern theoretical physics where everything -is- an object (in

Actually, I am curious. Do you have something more specific in mind,
or was this just mend to be an admittedly very clever line?

> concept, not necessarily name). The physical world in which we live is
> de facto Rubyesque. :-)

I like Ruby a lot but I find Ruby's single method receiver
OO-incarnation (unfortunately the OO-norm) models badly
at least the mathematical world -  the ingenious but in the end
hackish and ``non-OO'' coerce  framework of the Numeric
class hierarchy is an unfortunate proof to my point...

/Christoph