From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-05T22:52:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Indentation vs. "end"s [SPAM]

Dňa Sobota 04 Február 2006 10:53 gabriele renzi napísal:
> Austin Ziegler ha scritto:
> > I prefer explicit -- and more flexible -- than implicit and
> > inflexible.
>
> are you citing line 2 of "the zen of python" consciously? :)
>

The irony is UNBEARABLE, I tell ya...

To make this less complete spam, I state I don't like curly braces. I blame 
the horrors of learning C at college, the horrors of coding JavaScript at 
school, and this godawful cheapo plastic taiwanese keyboard with a German 
layout that makes typing them a horrible pinky-strain. 

That said, I can somehow understand, if not actively appreciate Ruby having 
optional C-like features for the sake of C-likeness. The forces of marketing 
in the programming language market are brutal and unyielding, the fact people 
are willing to accept, nay, like C# with its deluge of keywords, half of 
which mostly serve for the compiler only to slap you for not using them when 
appropriate. (Why the hell can't I use ``this'' to reference static members 
in a static context?! *bangs head against wall*)

David Vallner
Slashdot score me and have your goldfish die