Question: immutable strings as design goal?

I’m surprised you didn’t mention his summing up of Ruby as “cute.”

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-----Original Message-----
From: Luc Heinrich [mailto:lucsky@mac.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 12:42 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: Question: immutable strings as design goal?

Gavin Sinclair gsinclair@soyabean.com.au wrote:

So, is van Rossum’s point valid?

No it’s not. Guido is just insanely jealous that Matz’ personal hero is
Larry Wall and not him, and this “omg, immutable strings are horrid”
crap-o-la is the only thing he could come up with.

What a lamer… :>


Luc Heinrich - lucsky@mac.com