From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2004-01-18T17:25:45+09:00
Subject: [OT] Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 11:40:02AM +0900, Dave Brown wrote:
> : It's simply the danger of a namespace clash. At least if short and
> : simple names are used as i have seen as a suggestion in a ruby book.
> : 
> : At least library developer should avoid this as hell.
> 
> Smart developers know when this kind of thing is appropriate and
> when it isn't.  Ruby is a language for smart people, and one of
> the facets of its design is letting the Ruby programmer make that
> judgement call.

"It's a language for smart wannabe (i.e people trying to be
smart)." - matz

;-)

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