From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-09-28T02:57:17+09:00
Subject: Re: adding overload to ruby

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:20:49PM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> ----- 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.

Then we can sell it that way:
 "No application with more than 100KLOC has ever been written in Ruby,
  for no human being needs more than what 70000 LOCS of Ruby can bring" ;-)

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