From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2008-04-26T13:37:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Minimalism

Eleanor McHugh wrote:
> But conversely it's possible to write powerful programs with a very 
> minimalist feel using Ruby, so whilst the language isn't minimalist it 
> allows the programmer to be economical in a way that many languages fail 
> to do.
> 
> Of course sometimes it's possible to express things in so terse a manner 
> that even a zen master would be hard pressed to decipher them :)

You can do that in C too -- write a Forth inner interpreter in C and 
then code in Forth. :)

But seriously, despite its minimalism, once you understand the core 
syntax and semantics of Scheme, it's fairly easy to read Scheme code. A 
Scheme interpreter in C is, on the other hand, almost indecipherable.