[ale] semi [OT] making learning ruby programming fun?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Doug Hall <doughalldev at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>

Regarding speed, does anyone have any experience compiling Ruby either through Rubinius or JRuby or otherwise?

Ron

>
>
>On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 03/27/2013 10:53 AM, Doug Hall wrote:
>>
>>> I love Ruby. Ruby's creator's motivation was to write a language
>that
>>> make people happy using it.
>>>
>>
>> And make servers crawl when interpreting it and and make humans need
>> strong drugs to recover.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Leam
>>
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