From: Brian Hutchison <b.hutchison@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T00:47:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Visual Basic

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To be clear, its not ENDIF in VB, its End If (and just End in Ruby of
course).

On 7/27/06, Son SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Those are FAR too general... I can count hundreds of languages with less
> braces than C and if statements that end in ENDIFs. BTW, ENDIF is BASIC,
> not
> proprietary to VB :P
>
> On 7/27/06, Daniel Baird <danielbaird@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/27/06, Ike <rxv@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >> Would that be the same Ruby we are using today? I ask this because,
> > > >> syntactically, it seems very much the same as Visual Basic. Thanks,
> > Ike
> > > >
> > > > ARRGGHHH! You must be kidding!
> > > > Don't say that PLEASE!
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't like it either -- but SYNTACTICALLY there are many
> > > similarities! -Ike
> > >
> >
> >
> > Uh.. not as many curly brackets as C?  " if " statements?
> > That's two similarities. I'm sure if we all pitch in, we can find some
> > more..
> >
> > ;D
> >
> > --
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> Things
> > That Suck)
> >
> >
>
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