From: Paul Prescod <paulp@...>
Date: 2001-08-25T01:01:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20297] Re: Why doesn't Ruby have this...

"Albert L. Wagner" wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>  So that, not once did it
> occur to me to say, "What a stupid way to write a language. It
> implements functionality A differently than language X.  It must
> be a bug or a design flaw."  Yet, today, I see this phenomenon on
> every language ML and NG on the web.  It is totally baffling to
> me.

I think it is all in how you ask the question. You shouldn't presume
that a difference is a flaw but you also shouldn't presume that it is
automatially inspired design. All languages do have flaws and sometimes
looking at other languages can help to fix them.
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