On 05/13/2012 11:14 AM, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 05/11/2012 10:33 AM, Shiv wrote: >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> >>>> From: Balwinder S Dheeman <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Cc: >>>> Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 6:50 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [ilugd] ISPunity: featured in efytimes.com >>>>> ISPunity can be used by individuals or SME or Enterprises. >>>> Good job indeed, though a dependency on ruby seems to be an overkill to >>>> me; IMHO, all system level or command line tools, scripts and, or >>>> utilities should be light weight, whereas your ISPUnity thing is far >>>> from K.I.S.S. and, or Unix philosophy. >>>> >>>> BTW, did not you bother to look at what's already available on the >>>> Internet? >>> I'm sure there are many such apps/distros/solutions available. >>> We've been using m0n0wall and pfSense (both freeBSD based) for a long time >>> now and Vyatta more recently. >>> It would be a shame to belittle Arun's efforts by suggesting that he is >>> "re-inventing"� the wheel. >> Yes, he is re-inventing the wheel; you confirmed it and that too using >> wrong or bloated interpreter and dependencies. > > That is rather silly. Would you care to explain your logic there? From > the face of your arguments, any seemingly small task, if accomplished > by a Ruby script, is bloatware? Then I have committed that mistake > many times.
And never ever bothered to learn from your mistakes? Or you have confirmed, either you or me am hitting against the wall :( > Or is it the presence a test suite, a project folder structure, usage > of standard build infrastructure like Rake etc. that offends you? Much > of it is automated in Ruby land, and even if it were not, you should > be thankful that someone took out the time to do all that for an open > source project. Yes, I'm thankful to you also for the time you spent on replying :P > You may be content in the land of shell scripts and C binaries, and > may even be "real programmer" enough to not need any supporting > infrastructure, however Ruby is one of the best languages around, > suitable for any task regardless of its size. Just because you don't > like it, doesn't give you leeway to belittle people who do. FYI, I programmed a lot using Ruby also, but neither it's a panacea nor it's best for *everything*; though I agree there are domains where Ruby surpasses other programming languages. -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman (http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/) _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
