From: noone <nanotech@...>
Date: 2002-01-01T05:03:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29886] Ruby/Python: Software Engineering

All:

There are many things I like about Python, but the one that seems to keep me w/ Python is (IMHO) its commitment to "software engineering practices/methodologies".

Hopefully staying away from an infinite recursive descent into definitions, is there any good summary that attempts to justify where/how Ruby makes this a priority?

  Quentin Crain


What follows is detail which is not necessary to answer the question above, but fills out (a little) my thinking.

Software Engineering Practices/Methodologies include:

  Designed from the "ground up" for readability

    Enforced indention (you indent your own code I bet)
    { @No #line $noise }
    No short cuts ($!, $%, etc)

  Documentation a priority from the beginning

    docstrings (at all)
    docstrings (as properties)


Many of you are probably tired of this type of thread, but these are the types of things that keep me using Python and I am wondering if/when/where Ruby addresses them. Are these simply topics of opinion, or do they actually matter?

thanks!! <<q



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I think we are miscommunicating. I actually expected some confusion with
my last response and I am not sure if there actually was some, but I feel
like it. So, my message is going to assume I did not make my points, but
perhaps you did understand me. If so, then that means *I* did not
understand *YOUR* response - in which case you will need to rephrase.