Comments on: Riding the Rails http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/ Thoughts of a minor lunatic Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:38:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: petrilli http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-5421 petrilli Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:55:43 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/#comment-5421 I'll see what I can write up. I finally unsubscribed from @python-dev@, since I really had nothing to contribute any more. The big thing is I feel like people are just tacking on more geegaws and doodads, rather than rethinking the problem. Less is more, more is just complications. It's time for Py3K. I’ll see what I can write up. I finally unsubscribed from python-dev, since I really had nothing to contribute any more. The big thing is I feel like people are just tacking on more geegaws and doodads, rather than rethinking the problem.

Less is more, more is just complications. It’s time for Py3K.

]]> By: Michael Bernstein http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-5418 Michael Bernstein Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:22:02 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/#comment-5418 "It’s not that I don’t like Python, but instead that I see it as a language that has lost its direction and is suffering from syntactic-sugar rot, with no sign of that letting up in the near future." Interesting. Can you follow up in another post with specifics? “It’s not that I don’t like Python, but instead that I see it as a language that has lost its direction and is suffering from syntactic-sugar rot, with no sign of that letting up in the near future.”

Interesting. Can you follow up in another post with specifics?

]]> By: import this. » Blog Archive » The pragmatic programmer http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-5410 import this. » Blog Archive » The pragmatic programmer Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:35:20 +0000 http://blog.amber.org/2006/02/19/riding-the-rails/#comment-5410 [...] It seems like more and more I’m reading that the Pragmatic Programmer series of books is choice of geeks rather than the standard O’Reilly fare. Here’s an example: While I start working on this project, I have two books that I’m going to be keeping handy, in both their print and PDF forms: [...] [...] It seems like more and more I’m reading that the Pragmatic Programmer series of books is choice of geeks rather than the standard O’Reilly fare. Here’s an example: While I start working on this project, I have two books that I’m going to be keeping handy, in both their print and PDF forms: [...]

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