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Ah, well that is a good point. However, many (most?) good things in software have a bit of insanity going on somewhere in the mix. For instance, any computer ga

Ah, well that is a good point. However, many (most?) good things in software have a bit of insanity going on somewhere in the mix. For instance, any computer game is definitely "more than the sum of its inelegant parts." My main beefs with Ruby are that it is slow, and there is a weird reality distortion field within the community that makes a lot of people respond to legitimate criticisms with tribal defensiveness. However, I won't go into either point as Zed Shaw seems to have covered them quite well.

davidw 18y ago
> makes a lot of people respond to legitimate criticisms with tribal defensiveness. That's true for pretty much any computer system, whether it's Tcl, Emacs, Ubuntu, Postgres or whatever. BTW, I loved the descriptions of Perl and Java users - it's not often that I get that good a laugh when reading something. And I agree with you completely about Ruby hitting a 'sweet spot'.