[#3006] mismatched quotation — "stevan apter" <apter@...>

ruby documentation uses a punctuation convention i've never seen

13 messages 2000/05/27

[ruby-talk:02996] Re: Ruby, moxilla & xpcom

From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-05-26 06:03:18 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2996
>>>>> "C" == Conrad Schneiker <schneik@austin.ibm.com> writes:

C> However, I also think that Perl and Python are full-fledged programming
C> languages as well Ruby, and I have certainly previously used Perl as such. I
C> don't think we should demean Perl and Python (or otherwise mischaracterize
C> them) by calling them scripting languages, which is what bsh, csh, ksh, bash,
C> Tcl, and so on are. There are better ways to say that Ruby is a better OO
C> programming language than Perl or Python--as for instance, by simply saying
C> so.

 See the thread "Perl unusable as a programming language" on c.l.p.m

  http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=627235761

 Especially the comment from Ilya Zakharevich (ilya@math.ohio-state.edu)

Guy Decoux






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