From: Jeff Wood Date: 2005-08-05T06:20:48+09:00 Subject: Re: Yet Another useless Ruby 2 Idea Understood, but at the same time, it's funny that you say Python has sacrificed nearly everything ... this from member methods that require self as the first parameter... Anyways, yeah, not trying to cause a fight, but I don't particularly see that as particularly readable... a newbie looks at the code and says, but I didn't pass 4 parameters... I find Ruby to be quite a bit easier on my eyes that Python ... I just really like their list syntax ... Anyways , just putting my $0.02 in. j. On 8/4/05, Dave Fayram wrote: > On 8/4/05, Jeff Wood wrote: > > Yeah, I figured that out right after I had posted my message... > > > > But still, you can see that the python syntax is quite a bit more > > readable ( at least in this case ). > > > > j. > > Not to pick a fight, but that's just fine by me. Python sacrifices > nearly everything for readability. It's a language that revolves > around making code readable. If Python is occasionally more readable, > that's just fine. Ruby has a goal of being pleasant to write and work > with as well as being reasonably readable. I'd feel far more > comfortable when I work with Ruby, and it is usually quite readable. I > feel far more constrained when I write Python, but the output is > nearly always extremely readable. > > The fact that Ruby can compete with Python in terms of readability is > a testament to how far it has come. > > > > -- > -- > Dave Fayram (II) > dfayram@gmail.com > > -- "So long, and thanks for all the fish" Jeff Wood