From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2005-12-09T01:50:18+09:00
Subject: Re: They say I write Ruby like Perl

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:02:04AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> 
> Definitely.  "Readability", in my opinion, has turned out to be a
> worse-than-useless concept in discussions of style.
> 
> So it comes down to one's take on Ruby conventions, I guess.

Well . . . there are some pretty much objective measures of readability.
Ruby, thankfully, tends to come out smelling pretty good on that score,
both in terms of the sort of code Ruby syntax encourages and in terms of
the common Ruby stylistic conventions.  I do tend to agree, though, that
at least half the time when someone says "readable" what he really means
is "I like it."  Python is my perfect example of that: Python hackers
all seem to think that Python is God's gift to readability, but it
frankly makes my eyes bleed.

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