From: Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T23:04:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Visual Basic

On 7/28/06, Ike <rxv@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> "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.

Well everything should be converted to Ruby, but perhaps you should
work a little more in Ruby first, to confirm your hypothesis!

Les