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The best features about this bridge are that it's made out of soap bubbles and it doesn't necessarily span the river at any given time. This flexibility is wond

• inopinatus 5y ago
  That is not a good metaphor for anything, really: no-one was enlightened; at best some reddit-grade snark was conveyed.
  • mypalmike 5y ago
    I worked with Ruby for two years. The metaphor is apt when considering software development as an engineering discipline. It was certainly not meant as snark. You disagree, that's fine.
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    • inopinatus 5y ago
      Not really sure what you think I disagree with, since the metaphor is so vague and wishy-washy it could apply to anything from theology to stamp collecting, but it sounds like trying to conflate late binding with some manner of bad coding style. Well, since I have been privileged to work with several really great Ruby teams over the last couple of decades, whose large and well-structured code uses metaprogramming techniques yet remains easy to follow & comprehend (and debug and extend), and who remain splendidly productive to boot, I can say, if this bunch of guesses at the intended meaning of that "soap bubble" metaphor hold water, then yeah, I disagree. Conversely, shitty code can be (and is) written in explicit import and early-bound languages. The enterprise world, for example, is riddled with massive hairballs of brittle, unmaintainable, boilerplate-heavy Java. All of which only goes to show that people, not the programming language, are the problem.