Ruby isn’t defensive
I came across this little gem while reading the Unix philosophy page on Wikipedia (Mike Gancarz’s 9 paramount precepts are worth a read).
“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.” – Doug Gwyn
I think you could say the same about Ruby.
I remember reading that Perl was designed to be Unix encapsulated in a programming language. If you consider Ruby as a child of Perl, this all makes sense…
xflibble
May 10, 2007 at 10:30 am
I’m not going to take the bait :P
Abhijit
May 11, 2007 at 6:42 pm