From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-05-08T21:03:00+09:00
Subject: Re: A major ruby annoyance!

On 5/8/06, Frank Hirsch <0ffh@frankhirsch.net> wrote:
> > The top things, as I recall, that people insist Ruby absolutely
> > HAS TO HAVE are:
> > 1. significant whitespace as in Python
> > 2. braces instead of keyword...end
> > 3. static typing
> > 4. variable declarations
>
> Actually, apart from 3, all of those could easily be handled with
> a preprocessor. Shouldn't be more than a few days work, I suppose.
> But, who the friggin heck would want to break a perfectly beautiful
> language like Ruby with STATIC TYPING???

...and also if you were to add a preprocessor to provide the other
three I wonder if you wouldn't be happier with some other language?
I read over here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
the useful rule: "Don't use macros to create your own personal
programming language"

Python would be the place to go if you want significant whitespaces.
C# would be good for the braces and variable declarations.