From: Juan Zanos <juan_zanos@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T07:36:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Its a Free Language

On 2 févr. 09, at 16:11, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>
>> I like to think of Ruby as being the English of programming  
>> languages. It's got a large and flexible vocabulary that makes it  
>> very powerful to work with, but unlike Perl or Lisp or C it's also  
>> a very easy language to get to grips with.
>
> English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other  
> languages into dark alleys, knocks them over, and rifles through  
> their pockets for loose vocabulary.
>
> -- Matt
> It's not what I know that counts.
> It's what I can remember in time to use.
>

English, unlike other languages, is very consistent and  
straightforward.  For example,  the plural of boot is boots and the  
plural of foot is foots.  Ok.  Maybe I need a better example.

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