On Saturday 05 June 2004 22:22, Dave Thomas wrote:
>
> If the type system of Ruby doesn't help with your application, don't
> use it either. I don't: I code in the language appropriate for the work
> I'm doing. Over the last three days, I've written in C, Java, Ruby,
> TeX, and Emacs lisp.

That would be sad to deprecate Ruby to just little scripts.  It already does 
so much very well.  But, I have to admit, the more I use Ruby in my larger 
projects, the sorrier I am for not going with C++.  Ruby gets these projects 
off the ground so much faster, but I hit this ceiling where little things 
start biting me in the behind, and I start spending inordinate amounts of 
time hunting down little problems and finding things like objects which are 
not hashes, but which are supposed to be, at the root of the problem.

I am very frustrated with these issues, and I'm definitely looking forward to 
either something coming regarding interfaces or typing, either in Ruby or 
Rite, or if another script language debuts that has it, giving that one a 
solid try.

	Sean O'Dell