From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-06-09T20:12:44+09:00
Subject: Re: A crosspost from the Perl Community

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Jenda Krynicky <jenda@cpan.org> wrote:
> Todd Benson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Jenda Krynicky <jenda@cpan.org> wrote:
>>> Who's gonna be the judge? Besides, define cleaner!
>>>
>>> No matter the solutions, the Ruby ones will look cleaner to the Ruby
>>> proponents and the Perl one to the Perl ones. There's nothing to be
>>> gained from this exercise.
>>
>> You would need a third party.
>>
>> Todd
>
> Someone who doesn't know either language?

Yes

> Which would not help much
> 'cause that someone needs to know at least some other programming
> language to have any idea whatsoever what's going on in here and then
> which ever's closer to his/her language wins.

Agreed.

> Spanish makes more sense that English to a portuguese that doesn't know
> either, does it say anything about the relative complexity of the two
> languages?
>
> Beauty contests are a nice pretext for watching a few chicks in swimwear
> (or wet tshirts), but it's not a way to find the most beautiful girl of
> the USA in the year 2008. Cause there is no such thing.

Also, here I agree.

In any situation, you need a context for beauty, which you pointed
out.  I was subtly suggesting that if you remove the context, then
everyone would be on a level playing field.

What would you suggest?  A pissing contest?  Just curious.

Todd