<div dir="ltr">> Some of the syntax is nice and clean, but if you can change the meaning of basic operators you have no concept > of code readability.<br><div><br></div><div style>Just because you can modify core classes doesn't mean that you should. That's pretty widely accepted advice in the ruby community, too. Just because the author gives you rope, it doesn't mean he wants you to hang yourself with it. It just means he's allowing you to. Guess what? There are crappy ruby programmers just like there are crappy Perl or C or Java programmers.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>You should note that Ruby 2 offers name-spaced "refinements" which are a more respectful way of modifying classes. Of course, the crappy ruby programmers won't understand them.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>If you want really fast programs, you might not want ruby. You might want C or Java, or even assembly language. As fast as equipment has gotten in the past ten years, in many instances, it makes sense to optimize around the programmer, not the program.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 03/27/2013 10:53 AM, Doug Hall wrote:<br>
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I love Ruby. Ruby's creator's motivation was to write a language that<br>
make people happy using it.<br>
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And make servers crawl when interpreting it and and make humans need strong drugs to recover.<br>
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Some of the syntax is nice and clean, but if you can change the meaning of basic operators you have no concept of code readability.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Leam</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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