"monkeypatching" considered bananas

perrin on 2008-02-26T06:05:08

Who would've thought? A Ruby programmer finally acknowledged that writing code which modifies other people's classes at runtime might not have been the best idea for writing maintainable code. He advocates writing and using actual APIs instead.


wait, is this perrin or chromatic?

slanning on 2008-02-26T12:34:48

Any programming article that nods to Stephen Colbert and praises Emacs can't be bad. :)