Why Ruby?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:op.vn2zzvlceav7ka at steve-laptop...
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:50:21 -0500, Bruno Medeiros 
> <brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:
>
>> In a less extreme view, it is not about controlling stupidity, but 
>> controlling creativity (a view popular amongst "artist"/"painter" 
>> programmers). So here the programmers are not dumb, but still they need 
>> to be kept in line with rules, constraints, specifications, strict APIs, 
>> etc.. You can't do anything too strange or out of the ordinary, and the 
>> language is a reflection of that, especially with regards to 
>> restrictions on dynamic typing (and other dynamic stuff like runtime 
>> class modification).
>
> Those aren't bugs, they are the artistic qualities of my program!  It's a 
> statement on the political bias against bugs, I mean most people kill bugs 
> without a second thought!
>

Or even worse, they try to "fix" bugs...just like people will "fix" their 
pets, or how tyrants will "fix" their opposition or their scapegoats.  Save 
the bugs! Thay have just as much a right to exist as any compiler or audio 
codec!

Ok, I'm done now :)