From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T08:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Fluent programming in Ruby

Dean Wampler wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/26/07, *Martin Duerst* <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp 
> <mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>> wrote:
> 
>     At 14:01 07/10/26, David Flanagan wrote:
> 
>      >With this change, code like this works:
>      >
>      >puts "hello"
>      >      .upcase
>      >      .reverse
>      >      .slice(0)   #  => prints "O"
> 
>     This looks great. It seems to confirm my feeling that part
>     of the reason for such method chaining is some similarity with
>     Japanese grammar, where the verb comes at the end of a sentence,
>     and a subsentence (with a verb at the end) can be followed by
>     further verbs, or a verb can be modified by further verbs.

If I wanted a programming language that was built on the philosophy that 
it should mimic the grammar of a spoken language, I'd use Perl 6. Or Cobol.

Dan