From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-27T14:20:49+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Thomas" <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby


> "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
> 
> > The problem with that is that a 20 KLOC Ruby program
> > is often the equivalent of a 120 KLOC C program...
> 
> And that's a problem because....  :))

:) Because I haven't the imagination to think of
problems (that I could solve) that would require
120,000 lines of C.

My team once wrote a large part of a Windows-UNIX
compatibility layer, and it was only 40,000 lines
or so.

Hal