Re: The narcissism of small code differences

2013-11-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 11/11/2013 06:50, Rick Johnson wrote: >>In a nutshell the author attempts to plead for the >>"longevity" of "old code bases" simply on the basis of his >>assertion that "old code bases" are "less buggy" and >>contain more "

Re: The narcissism of small code differences

2013-11-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
I never thought I'd be saying this but welcome back Rick :) On 11/11/2013 06:50, Rick Johnson wrote: On Saturday, November 9, 2013 6:42:04 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Uses an example written in Ruby, but don't let that put you off: Why would it? I write Ruby code all the time. Ruby code

Re: The narcissism of small code differences

2013-11-10 Thread Rick Johnson
On Saturday, November 9, 2013 6:42:04 AM UTC-6, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Uses an example written in Ruby, but don't > let that put you off: Why would it? I write Ruby code all the time. Ruby code in and of itself does not bother me, what bothers me about Ruby is the ease at which a programmer can

Re: The narcissism of small code differences

2013-11-09 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 09/11/2013 12:42, Steven D'Aprano wrote: Uses an example written in Ruby, but don't let that put you off: http://raganwald.com/2008/05/narcissism-of-small-code-differences.html Wonderful read, thanks very much for the link. -- Python is the second best programming language in the world. B

The narcissism of small code differences

2013-11-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Uses an example written in Ruby, but don't let that put you off: http://raganwald.com/2008/05/narcissism-of-small-code-differences.html -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list