From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-27T20:30:50+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

Hello --

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

> Hello dblack,
>
> Thursday, September 26, 2002, 6:55:36 PM, you wrote:
>
> dcsn> Isn't this like saying, "We know that violins have strings, and those
> dcsn> helps them produce sound, so let's put strings on clarinets" ?
>
> dcsn>    "I would like to evolve FROM Perl, Java and C++ rather than TO Perl,
> dcsn>     Java and C++."
>
> this sounds great only when you have real alternative to strings. now
> you just say "i don't want to see strings anywhere because i seen
> these one time"

No, I say, "Clarinets have a right to exist, and to be used on their
own terms, even though strings also exist."


David

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