From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2008-06-14T00:31:15+09:00
Subject: Re: A crosspost from the Perl Community

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 6:22 AM, Jenda Krynicky <jenda@cpan.org> wrote:
> Todd Benson wrote:
> I suggest to drop the idea. A beauty contest in this area is just a
> flamewar-sure-to-happen. And it's completely pointless, you can't
> convince anyone something (or someone) is more beautiful (or clean). And
> there's penty of both Perl and Ruby examples all around the Internet so
> there is no point to add yet another bunch.

I'm just going to have to agree with you again.  I'm torn, you see.  I
see elegance in Ruby, but at the same time get a little frustrated
with its flexibility; a taste of scariness even.  I'll continue to
favor the language over some popular other ones, because, for me, I
can read the code easier, even if the same thing is done several
different ways.

I should point out as a side note that I still haven't bought into the
whole "pragmatic" thing, simply because I don't think that programming
paradigm really trustfully exists yet, be it Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python,
whatever.  I guess I'm kind of old school in thinking "there's no free
lunch", and that's probably having to do with the database/engineer
background.  Ah, well, maybe I'll grow up.

Todd