"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 12/13/10 9:11 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote: >> On 12/13/2010 09:08 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote: >>> Yes I am :-) >> >> Since you were the Descent author, I wonder how you feel about Ruby's >> lack of static typing. In the video, the speaker bashes type safety as >> "having your balls fondled at the airport", that is, security theater >> that doesn't accomplish much. > > By the way, I couldn't stop cringing at the distasteful, male-centric > sexual jokes that the talk is peppered with. Wonder if there was any woman > in the audience, and how she might have felt.
Not much of a danger of that, there's probably about 10 female programmers in the world anyway. I see no problem catering a talk to the people who are actually there rather than the people you think should be there. > And this is not a ghetto rant - it's the keynote of a major Ruby > conference! (And I'm definitely not a prude.) Am I alone in thinking that > this is not what our metier should evolve into? > I didn't watch the video, but the only problem I see with the example above is the absurdity of implying that static typing is a useless bother. But I'm the kind of guy who finds Richard Pryor's stand-up funny rather than offensive.
