From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@...>
Date: 2005-01-11T22:57:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious programmers and syntax (was Re: Python vs Ruby)

> Wash your mouths out, guys.  In English, "serious" is a highly
> derogatory and offensive and dull term.  Get that out.

If serious programmers can't talk about ducks, I'm out of here!

Yes, "serious" programmers can write in every language regardless of
syntax or flavor.  New languages should be infinitely easy to pick up
once you have the basic concepts down.  But it's the languages they
choose for themselves that are the truly beautiful ones -- the ones
people need to pay attention to..   (Python and Ruby are both cool in
my book, but the level of fun to be had with blocks is unrivalved).