dblack / wobblini.net wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, thoran / thoran.com wrote:
> 
...
>>
>> <paragraph continues, but separated for emphasis>
>>
>> "I actually had to prototype this module in Ruby to get my
>> thinking clear enough to code it up in Perl..."
>>
>> Does this seem a little muddle-headed to anyone!?
> 
> 
> Maybe I still haven't had enough caffeine... but it doesn't sound
> muddle-headed to me.  I'm actually not sure what aspect of it you
> mean.  I certainly wouldn't second-guess Simon Cozens, who has written
> more than 100 Perl modules, if that's how he felt he wanted to
> proceed.
> 


Remarkable testimony, too, on how language choice effects thinking.

Pretty striking if Simon Cozens has difficulty thinking something 
through in Perl, but finds that Ruby engenders clarity.


-- 
James Britt

Judge a man by his questions, rather than his answers.
  - Voltaire