@Felipe C.
Most arguments to the topic were already expressed by others. All I
can add your argumentation with bandwagon fallacy (glibc, perl,
rubinius), false authority (link to your pitiful contributions) or even
link to unrelated TIOBE index are absolutely ridiculous.
I’m not against discussing the topic from all points of view, but your
persistence on accepting your proposal is just childish. Your time and
effort invested make no claims to be accepted, it was just your
decision.
I hope somebody you trust (family, friends) will help you with your
personality disorder as it becomes dangerous to grow up with this
untreated …
I am just one among the many Ruby users in the world, appreciating (most
of the) Ruby developers, am a native Japanese speaker, but I
totally agree with Felipe C. regarding his points regarding
Tadayoshi F… I have not read through the particular issue Felipe
Contreras mentions, but a different issue came to my attention.
In this issue Bug #8941: strptime %Y parsing - Ruby master - Ruby Issue Tracking System, the poster reports
that %Y accepts digits less than four, where the document clearly says
it has to be at least four digits. This is not a matter of opinion; it
is clearly a contradiction: either the Ruby time implementation is
wrong, or the documentation is wrong. By comparison with other
standards/languages including Python, the poster assumed the
documentation is correct and %Y should not accept digits less than four.
And he mentioned that Python accepts only four digits. This is a very
constructive bug report.
However, against this bug report, Tadayoshi F. responded with: “we
don’t need any bug reports for python.” How can Tadayoshi F. write
something like that? What kind of attitude is that? On top of that,
Tadayoshi F. changed the category to joke, and closed the issue.
That is extremely rude. Surely not what a professional programmer would
do. As far as I see, the poster of that issue hadn’t made a complaint
like Felipe C. did, but must have come to feel the same as him. I
am concerned that the
poster might not want to make a bug report any more. I made a new
issue (Bug #10049: RDoc bug for time format - Ruby master - Ruby Issue Tracking System) in hope to resolve the
contradiction between Ruby and RDoc.
I agree with Felipe C. that Ruby is extremely awesome, and just
as he is, I am concerned that this kind of response is having a negative
effect against Ruby’s worldwide success.