dblack / wobblini.net wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Mauricio Fernandez wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:07:19AM +0900, James Britt wrote:
>>
>>> dblack / wobblini.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, why the lucky stiff wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I know, I know -- my vision of Ruby's design as unified and not split
>>>> into programming/metaprogramming, or good/3vi1, or [whatever the
>>>> opposite of monkeypatching is]/monkeypatching, is hopelessly Utopian.
>>>> I plead guilty.
>>>>
>>>> (Can someone please follow up with a witticism about the Scopes
>>>> ("monkey") trial? :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, monkey patching may be an appropriate term for Python, but given
>>> that Ruby is more evolved, we need to call the technique  "evolutionary
>>> enhancement".
>>
>>
>> Or, if you want to surround it with an even more positive aura, maybe 
>> even
>> "intelligent design"  ?
> 
> 
> Awww, I was hoping someone would pick up on the "scopes" part :-)

I try not to shoot fish in a barrel... not till they evolve
rudimentary legs, anyway.


Hal