From: Robert Dober Date: 2007-07-11T20:17:55+09:00 Subject: Re: Beautiful Code : Pity he didn't ask here... On 7/11/07, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 01:07:55PM +0900, ara.t.howard wrote: > > > > i've been writing oo-perl for many moons, setting $/ to slurp files > > and all that... nevertheless the are features of ruby that attracted > > to me it from the context of perl and continue to stand out when > > selecting one of the two languages for a particular purpose. the > > power of ruby is that of abstraction and cleanliness. > > All else being equal, if I have call to write OO code, I'll always choose > Ruby over Perl. All else is not always equal, and sometimes OOP is not > the most effective approach to solving a problem, however. Hmm that's for sure, but is not it's notational beauty which sometimes makes us use it without any good -other- reason. That is a thought I am incubating for a long time but your sentence and my recent experience with Lua pushes me to say that. I love the concept of Lua, I cannot stand the code I have to write :(. R. > > -- > CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] > MacUser, Nov. 1990: "There comes a time in the history of any project when > it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." > > -- I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby -- Kent Beck