From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2004-07-22T18:58:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Which compiled language is closest to Ruby?

Hello Robert,


RK> Maybe that's a matter of taste, but I prefer simple clean concepts so I
RK> prefer a simple but powerful paradigma (like in Ruby) over a quite complex
RK> paradigma (like in C++).  IMHO C++ became so complex because it (i) had to
RK> cope with the history of C and (ii) has OO not as cleanly and consequently
RK> implemented as Ruby.

Look at Objective-C which is also full backward compatible to C and
you see that (i) is not a real reason for the complexity in C++.

It's just a bad object design from the scratch. And after the success of C with
classes, there was to much code to change the basics so they continued
the tragedy.

Sometimes you need a revolutionary step forward.


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