From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T22:16:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Python vs Ruby

Hello tony,

ts> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:51:04 +0900, you wrote:

>>i happen to intensely hate python also for what its worth :)
>>reason: 3 wasted hours due to an indentation "bug"

ts> yeah, that can be a killer if you don't use a fixed width font.

ts> i found the only way to avoid that was to write python code with a dos
ts> or some console  editor (like the console version of vim, boxer, etc).

ts> if i had any complaint about ruby it would be  begin/end blocks. i
ts> thought we ( as programmers) were done with that when pascal fell by
ts> the wayside. i much prefer {curly brackets} to designate blocks of

Even C++ Freaks like Bj�rn Stroustroup don't like brackets because
they are too much overloaded, thats why the new cast operators use <>.

I think the current balance between backets and begin/end in ruby is
very good. In Pascal the problem was that you had if/begin/end and no
implicit begin as part of the control statement. Ruby and all later Wirth
languages (Modula/Oberon) learned from the wrong Pascal way.


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