From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T22:32:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby disadvantages over Mind

* Anubis <philippe.deschamps@sympatico.ca> [030612 13:21]:
> OO Programming is not the Panacee and I don't like Ruby because my mind is
> much less stimulated programming with it.
> I mean if you have to "turn right and become red" then Ruby has already a
> method doing that.
> And you can use it like this : Object.turn_right_become_red

Ok, let's pretend that's true for the sake of argument.
I'm not the language police, write VBScript if you want.
That said:

> I prefer doing that by programming instead of writing something which
> someone has already programmed for me. Because people saying that since they
> program with Ruby they don't want to program with another language are true
> : they are not adapted anymore with popular but harder programming language.

Yeah, like assembler or C.
Don't '#include <stdio.h>' though, you should write your own functions to 
access disk sectors manually. Otherwise where's the fun?


I am mortal. I have a finite lifespan.
Life is too short to piss about with low-level languages.

When I want to drink cranberry juice, I buy a carton. I don't genetically
engineer cranberries to grow in Wales awful climate,
wait 10 years and then squeeze them individually by hand.


Plus I think your argument is flawed.
Take Array.each as an example. I don't see how that is any less l33+
than a for loop, it just looks nicer, and saves my RSI from getting
worse.


The fun is in writing applications, not grovelling around rewriting a
function to walk down an array for the umpteenth time.

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Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns