From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-01-04T11:45:58+09:00
Subject: Re: application and web app technologies



Xavier Noria wrote:

> For each language L you'll need to cringe at someone because you use  
> L. Some people love Python, clean, design well-taste, blah, blah,  
> some can't stand its whitespace conventions, can't stand the mix  
> functions/methods, its documentation (that's me) etc. Some people  
> love Ruby, some think it ends up being too dense, lack of mature  
> libraries versus such and such, blah, blah. Some people love Perl,  
> some say it's line noise, blah, blah. Lisp, Java, Eiffel, C++, C, ....
>
> It's a lost battle :-).

It's not a lost battle here ... unless you're advocating something other 
than Ruby. :)

Seriously, though, Ruby is a young language that's had a chance to learn 
from the mistakes of its ancestors. The things it's missing -- 
Lisp-style macros are the only major one I can think of at the moment -- 
aren't things that necessarily are useful to a *lot* of programmers. A 
few improvements in the performance of the run-time, and Ruby could well 
rule the world.

But it will never replace R. :)

-- 
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky

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