From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-11T23:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Serious programmers and syntax (was Re: Python vs Ruby)

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:57:14 +0900, Michael DeHaan
<michael.dehaan@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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).

I guess everbody has their own tastes. Matz created something _he_
wanted. Many others liked what he created,

> 
> 


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