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On the maintainability of Ruby & Broken code

On the maintainability of Ruby & Broken code

Posted Jan 20, 2011 11:49 UTC (Thu) by ms (subscriber, #41272)
In reply to: On the maintainability of Ruby & Broken code by faramir
Parent article: On the maintainability of Ruby

Depends - if the language developers are sufficiently concerned with maintaining backwards compatibility then it's not too hard to run the latest release. Erlang is a good example of this - yes, I'd be quite happy to see them rewriting most of their standard libraries to get rid of a number of warts, but I'm also quite happy with them not doing so.


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