From: David Garamond <lists@...6.isreserved.com>
Date: 2004-07-10T04:01:57+09:00
Subject: Re: My impressions about Ruby

Sam Sungshik Kong wrote:
> end. C's {} is simple but not very elegant. Python's forced indentation
> seemed to be fine but sometimes causes trouble. Ruby is in the right way in
> my opinion.

Frankly, the only situation I've encountered when Python's necessary 
indentation giving trouble is when I need to post Python code via email 
and people reading my post from Yahoo Groups. Yahoo Groups strips 
indentation so my Python code won't compile.

> I also want to mention that ruby people are very kind to each other and
> enthusiastic. That may be because its community is still small. I hope this
> atmosphere lasts even after it grows bigger.

 From my observation (and I think this has been discussed at least once 
in this group), a hostile environment is usually caused by/originates 
from a few dominant pricks. When those pricks go away, so is the 
hostility. I hope we don't have to experience this in ruby-talk/c.l.r :-)

> Well... I wish Ruby supported unicode like Python. Actually I think string
> should be always unicode like C#. I'll wait and see Ruby 2.0.

In Ruby, Unicode will probably _never_ be embedded as deeply as in 
Java/C#. Ruby needs to be more unicode than Unicode, as it needs to 
accodomate Japanese people more.

But that doesn't mean Ruby won't ever have good Unicode support.

-- 
dave