On 18 Jul 2013, at 11:06, Graham Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> "This particular issue is the one that makes me consider a career change >> more than any other." > > God no. For me it's the Ruby community's repeated failure to understand the > purpose of testing, and the consequent obsession with finding more ways to > decrease our ability to save/make money for the organisations we work for. > > Actually no, I'm wrong. That's just what has me continually considering a > community (and hence language) change. Hmmmm. 1: That we have a language semantically almost identical to Smalltalk, yet have ended up with a community mislead to believe "< ActionController::Base" / "< ActiveRecord::Base" means you're doing (and is The One True Way to do) OO design, despite decades of alternative patterns in other languages that suit many contexts much better 2: What Graham just said 3: WYSIWYG HTML editors WYSIWYG HTML editors are probably at the bottom mainly because I haven't had to use one recently. Ash -- http://www.patchspace.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashmoran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
