From: Ryan Pavlik Date: 2003-01-26T15:31:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Why "like Perl"? was: RAA proposal On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:44:18 +0900 Tom Sawyer wrote: > don't take what Ryan said as a dis on what you've proposed. i think he > only means to take it even further, and not directly regarding your > contribution here. i beleive he refers to whole of the conversation in > general. but i guess i should not talk for him... I mean this indeed. The only reason I used Daniel's message as a starting point was the "everyone else does this so why don't we" statement, which seemed to echo a lot of what I've been reading here. It's not that making the RAA better is bad... just doing something because everyone else is doing it is bad without considering why it's being done. The RAA has a lot of potential, especially in light of Ruby's object-oriented nature, and merely mimicking others may lead to something decent, but stepping back and considering how far and in what direction the RAA could be taken would really further your cause (which in this case, I believe, is attracting programmers). -- Ryan Pavlik "What part of this whole villain thing do you not understand?"