From: Dave Bass <davebass@...>
Date: 2008-05-30T07:03:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Should I Learn Ruby as a First Language?

7stud -- wrote:
> I also notice that a lot of 
> Ruby programmers who post on this forum like to cram the equivalent of 
> ten lines of code into a convoluted one liner whenever they 
> can--efficiency and clarity be damned.

Hear hear. Clarity should win over compactness every time, IMHO. (Even 
in Perl.)

In my own coding I like one idea per line, and one comment every 5-10 
lines on average. Seems like everyone else tries to do the exact 
opposite.

(Ducks... ;-)

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