From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-08-23T16:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Code Parsing

On Aug 22, 2010, at 20:12 , Chad Perrin wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 08:38:40AM +0900, Caleb Clausen wrote:
>> 
>> Ruby is designed to be easy for humans to read, which means it is not
>> easy for computers to parse. As opposed to say, perl, which is hard
>> for both humans and computers to parse. If you were to write down in
>> one email a complete set of rules, it would be a pretty long email.
> 
> I find Perl pretty easy to parse.  Maybe yours is a personal problem.

No, you do not find perl pretty easy to parse. Last time I checked, you can NOT statically parse perl. You have to evaluate it in order to get a proper parse. So, you find it pretty easy to evaluate. No easy task for me, I'll admit, but there is no reason for you to be an ass about it.