From: Bob Kline <bkline@...>
Date: 2001-03-23T03:08:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13086] Amusing contrast

I was struck by the discrepancy between this quote from the Ruby man
page:

       If you want a language for easy object-oriented program-
       ming, or you don't like the Perl ugliness, or you do like
       the concept of lisp, but don't like too much parentheses,
       Ruby may be the language of your choice.

and this excerpt from one of the Ruby scripts in the build package for
Ruby itself [1]:

  File.foreach($config || "config.status") do |$_|
    next if /^#/
    if /^s%@(\w+)@%(.*)%g/
      name = $1
      val = $2 || ""
      next if /^(INSTALL|DEFS|configure_input|srcdir)$/ =~ name
      val.gsub!(/\$\{([^{}]+)\}/) { "$(#{$1})" }
      CONFIG[name] = val
    end
  end

:->}

[1] ./ext/configsub.rb

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Bob Kline
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