tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853042.post113423899733723760..comments2024-02-06T20:44:32.502+05:30Comments on One Man Hacking: What Mr Fowler Really SaidRavihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03630087669712445498noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853042.post-54237870206162071452007-08-05T11:05:00.000+05:302007-08-05T11:05:00.000+05:30@jqb,Good Point!@jqb,<BR/><BR/>Good Point!Ravihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630087669712445498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853042.post-14718427850321096522007-08-05T10:57:00.000+05:302007-08-05T10:57:00.000+05:30I've concluded that everyone who was involved in t...I've concluded that everyone who was involved in this discussion was clueless, since none of them seem to have grasped that, for instance, the Array#pack method exists because pack() exists in Perl. None of them seem to have grasped that, when you write x = [] in Ruby, it has no idea whether you're going to use it as a stack or queue or random access array or whatever. None of them seem to have grasped that the Array class implements a <I>scripting language feature</I>, a container type that has the same semantics as Perl arrays. It has nothing to do with class design, and everything to do with the <I>requirements of the application</I>, which happens to be a <I>scripting language meant to replace Perl</I>.<BR/><BR/>Sheesh.jqbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07510836914645398165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14853042.post-1134277080592945892005-12-11T10:28:00.000+05:302005-12-11T10:28:00.000+05:30Well said.Well said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com