Invisible wrote:
> I just round Ruby to be very ad-hoc and I-made-this-up-as-I-went-along. 

I agree with this.  It basically takes Smalltalk and reinvents it 
without any actual planning as to how things will work. I gave it up as 
soon as I realized they were changing defaults on what I'd think were 
fairly important library calls between v1.18 and v1.19, with no 
consideration for backwards compatibility and (afaict) no real good 
reason for it.

> I prefer a language founded on a small set of basic axioms and 
> everything derived from there. But hey, I'm told some folks quite like 
> Ruby, so... ;-)

I suspect it's mostly people who have worked with a very limited set of 
languages that quite like it. Sort of like living in Hawaii or San 
Diego, and then going to visit the great beaches of Europe and saying 
"Yah? So? What's the big deal with the Italian Riviera?"

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     It's not feature creep if you put it
     at the end and adjust the release date.

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