From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-08-02T19:19:49+09:00
Subject: Re: RUBY vs COMMON LISP

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, fft1976<fft1976@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 1, 8:55 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> Try to parse Ruby syntax in Ruby and see how useless a language it is.
>
> I much prefer CL to Ruby, but this argument is useless. How many lines
> of code do you need to read Brainfuck in Brainfuck?

Yes indeed. Ruby, thankfully, is designed to be nice to humans, not to parsers.

martin