From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@...>
Date: 2004-01-20T11:00:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame

 --- Dave Brown <dagbrown@LART.ca> wrote: 

> In article <20040119071041.60609.qmail@web41112.mail.yahoo.com>,

> Thomas Adam  <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com> wrote:
> : Why should we start adopting traits that Perl has? If we did that we
> might
> : as just well switch to perl at the end of the day...
> 
> Why should we ignore positive traits that Perl has merely because we
> want to be different from Perl?
> 
> Perl's POD documentation rules, because it's pretty much always what
> you actually wanted.  Compare with Python's documentation--here, I'll
> show you what happens when you say "pydoc" on a well-known piece of user
> software written in Python:

Yup, and Ruby has its own documentation, which is being developed as we
speak..heck I am even more than willing to put some hours in to help with
that.

[..snip something..]

-- Thomas Adam

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