-- sWsOVxl/KnBAaKXkn9l Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 06:32 +0900, David A. Black wrote: > Natural selection isn't connected to what we're talking about. If you > mean we should ignore Matz, or find a way to coerce him into changing his > terminology to match a bunch of Google searches I think the disadvantages to the alternate terminology have been laid out pretty clearly in this thread already. People can make informed decisions. People are going to do what they want. Neither you nor I (nor even Matz, really) can control that. Ruby is a living culture, with give and take and evolving terminology. > -- while, meanwhile, a lot of newcomers to Ruby suffer because of how > cool people think their names for singleton classes are -- then I don't > think you've got a sound or respectful plan. Plan? I'm just being realistic. I've been close to a few ill-fated open source projects where the prevailing attitude was that insisting on anything different from what the project founder specifies is disrespectful and destructive. That attitude was deadly. I've also been involved with a few projects (and cofounded one -- Inkscape) which were wildly successful, growing organically and developing broad communities. People were free to do their own thing, and yet the project leaders were more respected. Sometimes things do get messy and confusing, but in my experience, even those messy and confusing things work out in the end. [ I'll leave it to others to decide which description better fits Ruby. ] I'm not a Taoist, but I think the notion of "striving-without-striving" describes the necessary ethic nicely. Relax. This is not about control or respect or disrespect or the Ultimate Fate of Ruby. -mental -- sWsOVxl/KnBAaKXkn9l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDlkaNcUNIGiXCc4MRAjvfAJ4l3CDgBoMwFVWbSM82t7PM6jOHbgCfVm2P HnXPBzAopUhpeva6rrKVMcQ gz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- sWsOVxl/KnBAaKXkn9l--