On 3/12/08, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, but some of your diatribe was originally directed my way. And this > stuff certainly isn't new to me. Sure it is, else you'd be using it.. like all the smart PHP programmers I see on the Rails list looking to expand their tool set on a daily basis. > Awwww. you're so considerate... but really, there's no need, I'm sure I > can understand things well beyond your own capabilities. There's been no indication of that up to now. > You're chasing your tail here. That would be true of any language. And > since such "meta programming capabilities" exist in other languages, > obviously they were thought up at some point when they didn't exist at > all. One need not know of something to be able to invent it... see how > that works. I could dumb it down for you if you want. You're confusing language designer with language user. A language user can only use what features he has been provided to use. You just keep beating that PHP rock with that PHP hammer. Pay no attention when someone utters the words "better" or "easier". Why not just go ahead and make yourself a mail filter too.. put gdonald@xxxxxxxxx right at the top. > of which you speak. You dismiss their experience, reasoning, and > preference and presume yourself superior... What reasoning? "I saw a 5 minute tutorial on Rails, I didn't understand some of it, therefore Ruby sucks?" That's not reasoning and it certainly doesn't gain one any experience, unless laziness recently became a virtue. > get over yourself. You first. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
