Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (2014)

Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by oblio on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:04AM (#15642668)

I, for one, like webmail and don't pine for the days before Oddpost/Gmail and AJAX in general.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by mratzloff on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:32AM (#15642820)

I mean, there was webmail back then... Besides a prettier interface and hitting refresh to check for new messages, there's no substantive difference.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by mercer on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:39AM (#15642846)

You're excluding exactly what I suspect OP considers a substantive difference.

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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by oblio on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:39AM (#15643687)

Yes, exactly:

"Besides this major technical difference, there is basically no major technical difference" :)

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