From: Bryan Zarnett <bryan_zarnett@...>
Date: 2001-03-24T04:50:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13156] Re: Amusing contrast

This presumes that you think regex is ugly.

B.

--- Bob Kline <bkline@rksystems.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Niklas Frykholm wrote:
> 
> > >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
> > 
> > Most of the ugliness here is caused by regexps.
> Regexps are inherently
> > ugly, but inherently useful.
> > 
> 
> No argument from me, I use them all the time.  I
> just found it
> entertaining that the man page appeared to have been
> written by a
> marketing droid, eager to pretend that you can't
> write just as ugly code
> in Ruby as you can in Perl.  :->}  Folks in glass
> houses, and all
> that....
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 


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