From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-02-04T15:57:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Its a Free Language

Juan Zanos wrote:
> On 2 f�vr. 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.
>
> 1100
>
>
>
I propose that we allow 'foots'. to be a subclass of foot - for those of 
us who secretly wish English had the lucidity of Spanish, or, if we dare 
to dream, Ruby....

t.

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