DHH talking about pluralisation in Rails, in Scott Hanselman's RailsConf interview with him and Martin Fowler:
...it was kind of a firewall. It was a firewall for aesthetics. So if you could not appreciate why we did this, why we chose to go through all of this work to get prettier code, maybe you weren't in the state of mind that was a good fit for this community. So we tried to weed people out in some sense – if they don't share the same cultural bias, if they don't share the same values, then maybe they're not a good fit for the Rails community.
It's often said that Rails makes it very easy to Do The Right Thing, whether it's separation of concerns, unit tests, DRY or whatever. I wonder how many people start using better practices because Rails pushes them in the right direction, or whether they choose Rails because they see the obvious evidence of good practices its philosophy and architecture.
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