From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2005-01-11T07:59:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious programmers and syntax (was Re: Python vs Ruby)

> > IMHO the different syntax shouldn't be an argument for a "serious"
> > programmer.
> 
> Please count me out as a serious programmer, then. I care deeply about
> the aesthetics of Ruby.

Well... he did put it in quotes. I think what he means by "serious" is
someone who writes code simply to get a job done - nothing more.
"Serious" is the wrong word, it implies that people who cares about
more than the functionality are not "serious", which is BS. I find
that people who care what their code looks like end up caring more
about the functionality and how that functionality is used/accessed in
the long run than people who only care about the inital "working"
state. (For me, a good programmer will be able to work in both modes:
a problem may recieve an "ugly" solution to start with, but over time
that would be refactored into "nice" code. If it wasn't, then the ugly
code would more than likely build up and choke the applicatin into a
ground up rewrite, much like fat deposits building up in arteries.)

Douglas