From: Ike <rxv@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T21:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Visual Basic


>> "Leslie Viljoen" <leslieviljoen@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:f204810a0607270629y5117c911m18bb17b9c1b05a34@mail.gmail.com...
> Seriously though, about the only similarity I can think of is the lack
> of semi-colons.

In particular, the control structure syntax and lack of semicolons (and, 
thank God, blocks are NOT, unlike Python, a function of the tabbings!). I 
mean, overall, say, converting a snippet of java/php/c++ code to another of 
those types, is syntactically similar. Here, it seems, that a lot of legacy 
VB code out there can (and then subsequently SHOULD!) be converted to Ruby.

-Ike