From: Mike Stephens Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: functional paradigm taking over Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 22:14:35 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5f74a408c138a2844937ecc0213fd8ad@ruby-forum.com> References: <6aeb13eb26b5656ca2247601ed369bcf@ruby-forum.com> <4D99ABF9.60407@classicnet.net> <20110404150412.GF99405@guilt.hydra> <4D9DDD7F.70407@classicnet.net> <20110407212435.GA15054@guilt.hydra> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302232492 35381 65.111.164.187 (8 Apr 2011 03:14:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 03:14:52 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20110407212435.GA15054@guilt.hydra> X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381163 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <5f74a408c138a2844937ecc0213fd8ad@ruby-forum.com> Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.stben.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2498 Chad Perrin wrote > > you found a 4GL very useful within its narrow domain of > intended applicability Chad , you have a rather prejudiced view of languages that don't look like what you're used to. For a few decades of my career, 4GLs paid the mortgage for me. I did a North Sea Oil system in ADS/On-line. Focus (with a touch of Rexx) ran the second biggest direct insurer in the UK for a while. It was the most efficient and fast-moving corporate IT department I've ever worked in. Focus provided ETL and data warehousing for the biggest card aquirer in the UK - hundreds of million of transactions per month. It managed loans of hundreds of millions to the biggest corporations in the World. What have your precious 'proper' programming languages done? I cut my teeth in IT before the advent of the Object-oriented Era. Everyone was excited when OO arrived. However what I often see from people taught OO from the cradle is a kind of religiousity, arrogance, intolerance - this is is the only true path to righteousness; every thing else should be burned. It's not really as black and white as that. You need to live-and-let-live. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.