On 7/19/06, Hal Fulton <hal9000 / hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
If it walks like a fish....?

Sean ;)