# Re: What we have here is a retard pretending to be a compute

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 29, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598 "2006-12-29T01:32:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gennady_B)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598/1 "2006-12-29T01:32:14Z")

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removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> [http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Scha04bOOEncapsulation.pdf](http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Scha04bOOEncapsulation.pdf)  
> . this retard thinks Smalltalk and Ruby don’t have private public and  
> what not. what a joke. This is almost as bad as James McGovern without  
> the pictures

Thanks for the article. Very nice at first glance, nothing retardish  
spotted so far.

Gennady.

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**Author:** ![Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gennady_B)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598/2 "2006-12-29T01:42:17Z")

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On Dec 28, 6:30 pm, “Gennady B.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gennady_B)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598/3 "2006-12-29T01:46:18Z")

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On Dec 28, 6:39 pm, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> > Gennady.  
> > Sorry blank post. but saying ruby has no encapsulation of methods is  
> > funny, it is pretty stupid if you ask me.

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**Author:** ![Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gennady_B)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598/4 "2006-12-29T16:26:28Z")

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On 29.12.2006 01:42, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Sorry blank post. but saying ruby has no encapsulation of methods is  
> funny, it is pretty stupid if you ask me.

Where exactly do you read that in the article?

Regards

```
robert
```

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**Author:** ![Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@Gennady\_B](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gennady_B)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-what-we-have-here-is-a-retard-pretending-to-be-a-compute/80598/5 "2006-12-29T17:32:47Z")

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Robert K. wrote:

> On 29.12.2006 01:42, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> 
> > Sorry blank post. but saying ruby has no encapsulation of methods is  
> > funny, it is pretty stupid if you ask me.
> 
> Where exactly do you read that in the article?

I think he was referring to this (starts at the bottom of page 1 of the  
original article):

“Popular dynamically typed languages such as Smalltalk, Self, Python,  
and Ruby still provide no encapsulation at all, or support it in a very  
limited way.”

and then later on page 3:

“None of these languages provide any support for declaring internal  
methods that cannot be invoked from outside of the class in which they  
are defined.”

Jeff