From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2007-03-19T20:53:14+09:00
Subject: Re: PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook

Hi --

On 3/19/07, John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> For some basic structures, this is not a bad idea, but unfortunately
> for many things Ruby code and approach is often pretty different from
> similar programs in other languages.

Moreover, unless the PLEAC philosophy has changed, my impression was
that they were interested mainly in how to do things in a Perl-like
way in other languages.  I seem to remember suggesting a rewrite of
one of the Ruby examples to use a block, or something along those
lines, and being told that they weren't aiming to illustrate the
individual features of separate languages. To the extent, great or
small, that PLEAC is constrained to play in Perl's ballpark in terms
of constructs and idioms, I don't think it's of much interest.  I
haven't examined it in great detail recently, though.


David

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