From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2008-04-09T10:44:06+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyâEURO(tm)s not ready - an indepth essay

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We have to be a little careful here...

Can I ask you - do you think life is perfect?

Perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't, it depends on perspective, don't you  
think?

Ruby is NATURAL.

Julian.


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On 09/04/2008, at 12:45 AM, Michael T. Richter wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:20 +0900, Diego Virasoro wrote:
>>
>> However I did sympathise with the author's comment on having too many
>> ways to do the same thing. They pretty much mirror my feelings: that
>> you either learn them all (in which case you lost in simplicity) or
>> you'll have a very hard time reading other people's code. I admit
>> though that it makes _writing_ code easier.
>
>> I know however that the Ruby community is strongly in favour of this
>> "feature", so I was wondering why.
>
> You answered your own question here.  It makes writing code a joy.   
> And, unlike, say, Perl (or even more extremely, K), Ruby isn't quite  
> a write-only programming language.  (If you use all the idiot  
> Perlisms you can make it that way, but almost nobody uses those  
> thankfully!)
>
> Ruby is by no means a perfect language.  But as a former Pythonista  
> (I started with Python at v1.3), Ruby, despite its warts (and this  
> includes the UNICODE issue, the lousy performance, the bad threading  
> model and the whole host of other things people have ranted about  
> for ages now) remains my first and favourite language I reach for  
> when I'm starting a project.  As things move along in the project I  
> reach for other languages to supplement or replace it (recently  
> Erlang has grabbed my imagination for certain key application  
> elements), but Ruby's my first choice and is usually in the final  
> product in some form or another.
>
> -- 
> Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com 
> )
> If there's one thing that computers do well, it's to make the same  
> mistake uncountable times at inhuman speed. (Peter Coffee)






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