On Jan 14, 2014, at 3:46 PM, gvim wrote:
> No, you're probably right. It's just that there never seem to be enough hours
> in a day/life :(
You’re not alone there either :-)
Cheers,
Bob
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> gvim
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> On 14/01/2014 20:26, Bob Hutchison wrote:
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>> No it’s not just you. Hardly! However, I
No, you're probably right. It's just that there never seem to be enough
hours in a day/life :(
gvim
On 14/01/2014 20:26, Bob Hutchison wrote:
No it’s not just you. Hardly! However, I’d caution you against allowing this
situation to continue. Preference is one thing. Isolating yourself from
On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:01 PM, gvim wrote:
> I recently took the plunge into learning Clojure and love it. Since I tend to
> be single-minded/all-or-nothing about these things I'm now finding it very
> difficult to switch mindset when I have to work with Ruby. Anyone else
> experienced this?
I
+1 here. I'm afraid the only solution I've found is to stop writing
Ruby. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Mark wrote:
> I misread the critical piece of your post :) You are, indeed, a step ahead
> of me
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> On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:30:13 AM UTC-8, g vim wrote:
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>> It's been
I misread the critical piece of your post :) You are, indeed, a step ahead
of me
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 11:30:13 AM UTC-8, g vim wrote:
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> It's been the other way round for me. I always felt Ruby was doing too
> much under the hood. So much so that I bought "Ruby Under A Microscope"
> j
It's been the other way round for me. I always felt Ruby was doing too
much under the hood. So much so that I bought "Ruby Under A Microscope"
just to find out what was going on. I found it very easy to switch to
Clojure because everything is so much more transparent. Now Ruby just
feels awkwar
I have felt your pain. I started life with Smalltalk and more or less
spent the last 15 years in Java. When I started Clojure, it was very hard
to break my thinking habits. Particularly, I was lost without manifest
typing. I didn't realize how much types documented my system and allowed
ver
Maybe don't switch mindset? Write code that looks like idiomatic ruby but
has what appears to rubyists as QWAN.
I think it's possible and maybe even desirable for bad things to feel more
foreign when your understanding increases.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:01 PM, gvim wrote:
> I recently took t
