From: Dave Benjamin <dave@3dex.com>
Date: 2003-08-20T05:04:54+09:00
Subject: Re: What's TOTALLY COMPELLING about Ruby over Python?

<dblack@superlink.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0308191543120.24852-100000@candle...
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Dave Benjamin wrote:
> > "Michael Campbell" <michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:LEEEIDNEKIDGNLMOEIJOOENICDAA.michael_s_campbell@yahoo.com...
> > > > If you were to instrument my physical responses and typing rate
while
> > > > coding using Python and Test Driven Development, and compare them to
> > > > my responses using Ruby, you'd get close to assessing the subjective
> > > > reason I ain't going back.
> > >
> > > This paragraph intrigues me.  Am I misreading, or are you not keen on
TDD?
> >
> > You probably don't realize how funny this question is. ;)
>
> OK, in the spirit of community-spiritedness, I'll take the bait.
>
> What's funny about it?

Only that Phlip is one of the most active advocates of TDD on Usenet. Browse
around comp.object or comp.software.extreme-programming and you'll see what
I mean.

Dave