[TxMt] PyMate in RUBY?!?!?

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On Nov 6, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Fred B wrote:

> On 11/6/06, domenico.carbotta at fastwebnet.it
> <domenico.carbotta at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
>> why is the new version of pymate written in ruby?
>>
>> I don't know jack about ruby -- why should I learn it in order to  
>> hack on a
>> tool I use daily while writing python code? come on, we don't want  
>> no stinking
>> ruby here!
>
> And we don't want no stinking language war here.
>
> But if you ask it, it's because ruby totally owns python. ;)

Think of it as a young Boy Scout helping a doddering old lady across  
the street ;-).

> More seriously, if you like to hack pymate, why don't you rewrite it
> before someone else had to do it? Or are you proposing to do it now?
> If your religion is against using a better tool written in ruby, use
> the old one.
> And if you're so picky about the tools you use, I have a bad news for
> you: TextMate is not written in python.

Oh my God!  I thought it was written in all languages and that's what  
made it so good.  You mean it uses some languages to *support*  
others.  Gasp!

;-)

S