From: Jeremy McAnally Date: 2008-03-16T00:37:53+09:00 Subject: Re: What is Ruby's biggest strength ? Have you ever actually written code in another language, especially Perl? Ruby's lack of line noise is a God-send for me. Just because people suck at using the syntax doesn't mean it's ugly. --Jeremy On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:05 PM, 7stud -- wrote: > Marc Heiler wrote: > >> What helps Ruby stronger than other programming languages > > > > > These days, I would give the following reasons for ruby: > > > > > > - Extremely clean code compared to the other languages I know/look at. > > > > In my opinion that is a a lie perpetuated by the ruby community. In my > opinion, ruby syntax is ugly. But even if you think the syntax is > clean, ruby is all about cramming 4 or 5 function calls into one line > and sprinkling some regex's in for spice, which is creates an > indecipherable mess. I've never encountered any language that is coded > so poorly by its community. Most of the code I see posted is very hard > to decipher, but if you say perl is worse, I'll believe you. > > > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- http://jeremymcanally.com/ http://entp.com Read my books: Ruby in Practice (http://manning.com/mcanally/) My free Ruby e-book (http://humblelittlerubybook.com/) Or, my blogs: http://mrneighborly.com http://rubyinpractice.com