From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-03T10:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Its a Free Language

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On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Matt Lawrence <matt@technoronin.com> 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.


Actually, I'd say quite the opposite, English vocabulary is the result of a
long history of the English language being raped by the Languages of
whatever happened to be the latest invaders. Those words were injected into
the language rather than being pick-pocketed.

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Rick DeNatale

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