On Feb 25, 2008, at 7:24 AM, Avdi Grimm wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, James Gray <james / grayproductions.net 
> > wrote:
>> Assigning blame to a particular element of a programming language
>> seems foolish to me.  I'm pretty confident I can write some code that
>> abuses the heck out of while loops.  Should we start hating those now
>> too?
>
> If you read the post, you'll see that I'm not blaming monkey-patching
> - I'm blaming the faddish overuse of it when simpler methods would
> suffice.

Thanks for the concern, but I did read your article.

> Like I said in the post, it's a cultural issue, not a technical one.

I'm just uncomfortable judging an entire community with sweeping  
stereotypes.  I have no idea what you are coding, for example, and  
thus I don't feel I can speak intelligently about what you should or  
should not be using.

James Edward Gray II