Critique: 1) no LICENSE file 2) not configurable 3) not idiomatic ruby (e.g. camelCase not snake_case) 4) overtly complicated. A better, and shorter version

Critique: 1) no LICENSE file 2) not configurable 3) not idiomatic ruby (e.g. camelCase not snake_case) 4) overtly complicated. A better, and shorter version, is: bad_whitespace = " " ARGF.inplace_mode = "" ARGF.each_line do |line| print line.gsub(" ", bad_whitespace) end 5) bad commenting. The style of commenting each line for what it does is often silly. Something like "fileModified.close # Close file" tells me exactly nothing more than reading the code. Having "noisy" comments makes important comments less obvious, and thus actually makes the overall commenting worse. This is a sign of a college coder who had some class where the teacher said "you're required to have at least this much commenting", or a beginner programmer. And finally, this is obviously a dumb toy program. This isn't useful to show-hn. This isn't anything novel, or even interesting. It's not hard to do. It's poorly implemented and not portable (really, why require the user to edit the filename? ARGF exists for a reason). This was also submitted by a new hn account mere hours after it was created (clearly by the author). I have no problem with showing off your own work, but at least let it cool down to see if it's a good idea; see that other people think it's interesting or useful in its own right. I consider presenting an essentially 5-line program that is not generally useable or insightful as being basically spam. I do recommend keeping on programming and, once you've got a project you're proud of that has seen some use besides yourself, seen at least one other happy user, and relates to HN's interests, post away!