From: dblack@... Date: 2006-09-30T20:59:34+09:00 Subject: Re: "Succinctness is Power", by Paul Graham Hi -- On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Christian Neukirchen wrote: > "gregarican" writes: > >> Terse doesn't mean powerful. It means ugly IMHO. I like to use Ruby for >> its elegance and readability. If it takes a few more lines of code to >> express myself I still prize those selling points above being a man of >> few words. After all, breaking things down to binary form I could just >> punch a bunch of 0's and 1's. But what fun would that be? > > 01000100 01110101 01101110 01101110 01101111 00101100 > 00100000 01001001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 > 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110100 00101110 00001010 01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 01101001 01110010 David -- David A. Black | dblack@wobblini.net Author of "Ruby for Rails" [1] | Ruby/Rails training & consultancy [3] DABlog (DAB's Weblog) [2] | Co-director, Ruby Central, Inc. [4] [1] http://www.manning.com/black | [3] http://www.rubypowerandlight.com [2] http://dablog.rubypal.com | [4] http://www.rubycentral.org