From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-11-05T01:40:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:

[timidly snipping - hopefully it's o.k. ...]
M> cowardly leaving myself out) refactor this recurring `human code' into
M> a wiki or whatever, and redirect people there?  We don't want
M> ruby-talk to become ruby-design-advocacy, right?
[snip]

i agree with you.

i am relatively new to newsgroups in general, but it seems like comments like
these suggest a move towards splitting into sub-groups may be in order?  to
follow your great analogy Massimiliano, when i see this

def Module
....
  50,000 lines of semi-related lines of code
....
end

i would suggest a splitting out.  i've heard the arguments for and against,
but i would really like to see a small split : some groups seem to split too
much and people then use only one or two groups anyhow so something like

ruby-beginers
ruby-advocacy
ruby-devel
ruby-really-tough-questions-for-the-gurus
ruby-drivel

or maybe just

ruby-easy-questions
ruby-hard-questions
ruby-talk

might suffice.  the groups split by api's never seem that productive imo.  i
would *really* like to see advocacy type stuff out of here, or at least some
way to locate the real gems some of the gurus on this list kindly post to all
the questions posed, stupid ones and hard ones alike.  imo the best thing
about this group is that you CAN ask a question - and get an _answer_, not a
flame.  i have **really** apreciated the help given to me on this list and try
to do the same for others - is it just me or is this not the best thing about
a newsgroup like this one?  if i'm in the minority then perhaps i'd suggest

ruby-programming

be formed because that's what i love to do with ruby, and ruby-talk is where i
go for help.  ;-)

-a


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