From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-11-21T23:31:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26023] Re: R:  Re: Hello World considered harmful

Alessandro Caruso <a.caruso@creditonline.it> writes:

> I thought the main reason people are moving towards Ruby instead of
> keep using Perl is the better language design and the clarity of
> code.

And once you're here, have fun. Golf tournaments, obfuscating code,
and the like are good ways of learning new features of the language
that can apply in normal, everyday code. Damian Conway gives a great
talk where he spends 2 hours explaining about 20 lines of absolutely
horrendously obscure Perl code. By the end of it, you know a lot more
Perl than you did going in.

Anyway, from the reaction to the post, I've learned that code like
this is frowned on by the Ruby community. As a relative newcomer, I
hadn't realized this before. I'm terribly sorry to have offended
anyone, and I'll work hard in the future to write "proper" Ruby code.


Dave